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| Out of Exile rocks with purpose. Jumping to the title track, I found a man locked in secure solitude who was led by a woman out of his loneliness into wholeness. Saved from the darkness, his territory grows and he find that “the blessings on my table/multiply and divide.” Without discounting the opportunity for romantic love (it has its own saving elements), the wisdom element came to mind: locked in isolation, lonely, and depressed, we can be saved by community and the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. God does move in mysterious ways! |
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Out of Exile
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Audioslave
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? --Jerry McCulley
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Having no background on Soundgarden or Rage Against the Machine, I talked my second Audioslave album in one week at the encouragement of a friend. With fresh thoughts from the self-titled album, I found Out of Exile to rock with purpose as well. Jumping to the title track, I found a man locked in secure solitude who was led by a woman out of his loneliness into wholeness. Saved from the darkness, his territory grows and he find that “the blessings on my table/multiply and divide.” Without discounting the opportunity for romantic love (it has its own saving elements), the wisdom element came to mind: locked in isolation, lonely, and depressed, we can be saved by community and the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. God does move in mysterious ways!
The chorus of “Be yourself” exhorts the listener “ to be yourself is all that you can do” because “someone finds salvation in everyone/another only pain.” The salvation from our isolation may look different for different people but that relationship with God results when we embrace who we are in God as individuals, not clones! Audioslave seems anti-religion, but pro-faith, and Chris Cornell continues to look for something that “Doesn’t remind me.” Putting aside the standard symbols (crosses, gospel music), he remembers “ the things that I’ve loved, the things that I’ve lost/the things I’ve held sacred that I’ve dropped/I won’t lie no more you can bet/I don’t want to learn what I’ll need to forget.” This can be anti-creed, anti-legalism, anti-whatever, but there still seems to be more to love and faith in Audioslave’s growing body of work to make them anti-spiritual.
“Drown me slowly” exerts Cornell’s will, as he sings that he “ can’t walk on water, yet won’t even try,” seeking out a better world by his actions on it. It’s a mixed bag—his own self-doubt is completely human, but how can you know you can’t walk if you’ve never tried? If we are called to do all the things Jesus did than we could, but who has? Our faith is weak, and Audioslave knows this, but that doesn’t let the listener off the hook—“ leave a better world than you’ve found.”
A love song rises out of “Heaven’s dead,” the redeeming factor being that Cornell promises to take on anything that could hurt this other person/woman to take on the hurt himself. This devotion is also reflected in “Man or animal” and “Dandelion.” The salvation themes are more evident in “The Worm,” where Cornell imparts advice to someone with less experience, turning from the devil on one shoulder to finally embrace the advice of the angel on the other. Having been reborn, Cornell says that it is “never too late with my..halo.” This new life is expressed in “Yesterday or tomorrow,” where all things (man/machine, luck, fiction, religion) are subjugated to coming alive in ‘real’ living and loving.
The final words to Audioslave’s tale of salvation (at least this chapter) is “The curse.” Here, Cornell sings that he will never be a curse, even when the ‘other’ won’t respond in the same way, because he always has their best interest at heart. Even when struggling himself, he promises to provide his best for the other. Just as Christ died on the cross, Audioslave sees the worst moment taken on someone else’s behalf as benefiting them, in fact becoming their best moment. At the heart of Christianity, this notion resides, loving God and loving people, constantly providing that sacrificial love for others who cannot love themselves.
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[posted 6/2/2005 U.S.A.]
AUDIOSLAVE'S OUT OF EXILE DEBUTS NO. 1 IN THE U.S., TOPS THE CHARTS AROUND THE WORLD
Audioslave, the supergroup comprised of former Soundgarden leader Chris Cornell and Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, Tim C. and Brad Wilk, is back in a big way this week with their new CD, "Out of Exile." The album, produced by Rick Rubin and released on Interscope/Epic Records May 24th, debuted this week on the Billboard Top 200 chart at #1. It also debuted at #1 in Mexico, #1 in Norway, #1 in New Zealand, #2 in Brazil, #3 in Ireland, #3 in Australia and #5 in the U.K. The album bowed Top 5 around the rest of the world as well. "We've made an album we're really proud of and having the No. 1 record in the country is amazing. Do not doubt it: Our fans rule," Morello said. "Out of Exile" is Audioslave's follow up to its highly successful 2002 self-titled debut album, which has sold over 5 million records worldwide. The first single from "Out Of Exile," "Be Yourself," was #1 at both the Rock and Alternative radio charts, where it sat for four consecutive weeks. The current single, "Your Time Has Come," continues its climb up the Modern Rock, Mainstream Rock and Active Rock charts With such other songs as "Doesn't Remind Me," "Man or Animal" and "Heaven's Dead," Audioslave has delivered a strong and cohesive sophomore release, that finds the group truly developing into a rock band that has proven itself worthy of all the anticipatory buzz that preceded it while it maps out its own place in rock history. The group is currently touring Europe, where they are performing to sold-out audiences across the continent. On May 6, Audioslave became the first American rock group to play Cuba, attracting the largest crowd to attend a concert by an American artist in the communist country's history. About 60,000 rock-starved fans cheered, cried and sang along as Audioslave made rock history. Fans wearing Audioslave t-shirts and those of other American rock bands were among the enormous crowd at the free outdoor concert at Havana's La Tribuna Antimperialista José Martí. Thousands of fans, some waving flags, even an American one, jumped up and down in unison as the band rocked on. The nearly two-and-a-half hour concert of 26 songs was the longest of Audioslave's career. Audioslave brought its show to its hometown of Los Angeles on May 18, shutting down Hollywood Blvd. for a free concert and television performance on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live. In front of an exuberant audience numbering close to 10,000, Audioslave performed their two current chart-topping singles "Be Yourself" and "Your
Times Has Come" for airing on the Kimmel show. After the television performance was complete, the band performed a 40-minute set for the large crowd that included songs from Audioslave's
upcoming "Out Of Exile" album, their self-titled debut as well as Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine tracks. |
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