It’s a work of art. Straight and simple.
I listened to them separate first and together later, and I can’t express in words how surreal and intimate the whole experience was.
It’s a very personal and daring, creative, all around genius way to breathe life into a song.
It’s the kind of raw writing that feels almost gut wrenching, coupled with some very interesting and tasteful melodies both in the vocals and in the guitar. Man the breakdown guitar lick just before the angry bridge got me moving with it.
In a way it’s what I was hoping for, it seems like an evolution and at the same time an experimentation with the sounds and the general vibe that cut through in a way that other attempts (shackler’s, absurd, oh my god) didn’t really get to.
If that’s Slash playing there he absolutely outdid himself and dare I say connected with the song in a way that we maybe never heard since the reunion, even on the the old stuff.
I may be overexcited but this really seems a confirmation of the heights these artists can get to, the songs separated may not be hits or easily listenable but as a whole experience it makes you dive in a hole that only true sincere meaningful art can do.
It’s out of this world.