In what was widely predicted to be a short-lived supergroup/side-project, Audioslave has instead gratifyingly yielded a bonafide band. The follow-up to their promising, if not quite artistically congealed '02 debut finds singer/songwriter Chris Cornell contributing a slate of songs that would have done his former Soundgarden proud, while guitarist Tom Morello and his former Rage Against the Machine bandmates cast them in a focused rhythmic groove that suggests that the old school can still yield a timely lesson or two. Cornell's best songs may still lurk in the shadows (the funeral hypno-blues of "Heaven's Dead," the martial metal of antiwar opener "Your Time Has Come," "The Worm" as anthem for self-loathing), yet they're now brightened with such surprisingly sunny fare as "Dandelion," "Doesn't Remind Me"'s charged, existentialist daydream and even a hook-rich, dangerously optimistic back-to-the-future power ballad in "Be Yourself." Morello's work on the title track and elsewhere is a study in taste and less-is-more efficiency, a telling hint of how forcefully these iconic '90s stars have sublimated their egos as their new music has blossomed; who said there are no second acts in American (rock) lives?

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1. Your Time Has Come - (4:15) 2. Out Of Exile - (4:51) 3. Be Yourself - (4:39) 4. Doesn't Remind Me - (4:15) 5. Drown Me Slowly - (3:53) 6. Heaven's Dead - (4:36) 7. The Worm - (3:57) 8. Man Or Animal - (3:53) 9. Yesterday To Tomorrow - (4:33) 10. Dandelion - (4:38) 11. #1 Zero - (4:59) 12. The Curse - (5:09)

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