Review of ‘Everyone Gets Everything They Want’, Tom Morello’s new album
New solo album Tom Morello which again, due to a certain incoherence and innocence, seems like a debut album, with everything that this entails. On the one hand “Everyone Gets Everything They Want” It has a renewed verve, literally due to the participation of the guitarist’s son (also a guitarist) Roman Morello, but also because it includes a good palette of riffs of those that the man from Rage Against The Machine managed to turn into a universal language.
“Everyone Gets Everything They Want” –the song– raises the flag of rock-rap that Morello helped shape with an infectious riff that gives rise to “Adjourn It” first single and flagship song from the album in which his son Roman and Morello’s historical colleague and System of a Down singer, Serj Tankian, participate. The song successfully combines the Morellian groove with a weak rap, but with the impeccable attitude of a furious Tankian.
From there the album enters a tunnel of confusion in which songs coexist that could be from his project The Nightwatchman, others that are more rock-oriented, others with electronic alloy… but the concrete thing is that the album begins to show a concept that is difficult to understand. When we get lost, it has become a kind of train that closes the door in our faces at the edge of the platform and continues on with its journey.
We can say that “Unconquered” along with KNEECAP has its point as a song that seems like an outtake of the original soundtrack of “Spawn” and even in that the folk incursions show a very solid Morello in the voices (“Everyone Gets Everything They Want” and the folk repertoire they propose “The Last Rung On The Ladder”, “I’m Not Yours to Command” and “They Can’t Kill Us All”) is close to galactic whisperers like Mike Patton or Trent Reznor,
But it must also be noted that the work in its global concept does not have much cohesion and that some arrangements and ideas (“Soldier in the Army of Love”, “Everything Burns”) still maintain some of the tacky side of previous albums.
“Everyone Gets Everything They Want” renews the image of Morello after a period of very thin cows represented by the albums of the series “The Atlas Underground” and although nothing he does has the imprint or genius of the most basic Rage Against The Machine, it suggests a possible new beginning that many of his followers will surely celebrate.
