ALICE IN CHAINS: Jar Of Flies Vinyl LP (Remastered)

The only EP to ever debut at number one on the Billboard 200, and it was written and recorded in a week. Alice In Chains were supposed to be on a break.

Jar Of Flies is the quiet side of a band that could also rattle your fillings loose. Where Dirt went for the jugular, this one goes somewhere slower and colder, Jerry Cantrell's acoustic work doing something genuinely haunting underneath Layne Staley's voice. "Nutshell" alone justifies the price of entry. The whole record sits in this grey Seattle middle distance between grunge and something much darker, and the remaster opens it up without sanding off the edges. Essential dark alternative vinyl.

Format: Vinyl LP, remastered. Genre: Grunge / Alternative. Country of origin: US.

Fans of: Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mad Season, Stone Temple Pilots.