The Panic Channel - 'The Panic Channel'

An album from a band made up of three-quarters of Jane's Addiction sounds like an interesting prospect... However, the quarter that's left out of new rock band The Panic Channel is frontman Perry Farrell and that's the downfall of this new outfit...
Guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Chris Chaney, along with new vocalist Steve Issacs, cannot muster an ounce of the ingenuity that came effortlessly to Farrell between them it seems and the result is a debut album, which sounds tired, dated and verging on lifeless...
Kicking off with 'Teahouse of the Spirits' - a song which sounds like a Foo Fighters cast-off - the Panic Channel album just continues to slide downhill. There's nothing that is truly awful - although boring ballad 'Why Cry' comes close - it's just tired old rock tunes that either sound dull or about fifteen years too late... And coming from guys that once made up one of the most exciting rock acts of the last two decades, that's simply unforgivable...