Alice In Chains LOOSENS UP No More Moody Music

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Alice In Chains LOOSENS UP No More Moody Music

Alice In Chains decided to approach songwriting with an element of spontaneity on their 1995 Self Titled album. Deciding to leave the brooding behind, as singer Layne Staley felt that writing emotional music was taking a toll on his mental health.

Guitarist Jerry Cantrell told Rolling Stone:

"Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful." - Cantrell

Vocalist Layne Staley would add:

"I do that every day when I'm dressing... I take an ugly face and make it beautiful... For a long time I let problems and sour relationships rule over me instead of letting the water roll off my back... I thought it was cool that I could write such dark, depressing music. But then instead of being therapeutic, it was starting to drag on and keep hurting.

This time I just felt, 'F*** it. I can write good music, and if I feel easy and I feel like laughing, I can laugh.' There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. It was just what was going on in my head right then. We had good times, and we had bad times. We recorded a few months of being human." - Staley, To Hell and Back, Jon Wiederhorn, Rolling Stone (Feb 8, 1996)