Van Halen — back with Diamond Dave — gives us some truth

Van Halen — back with Diamond Dave — gives us some truth

Published Feb 6, 2012 04:23PM MDT

Grade: B+
CD • The best thing about “A Different Kind of Truth,” Van Halen’s first album with David Lee Roth in 28 years, is that it sounds like nothing else out there.
The vibe and, most importantly, the riffs, hooks, and the humor, are straight out of the band’s classic “1984” album, but without the front-and-center synthesizers that made “Jump” such a huge MTV hit. This is classic rock that hasn’t evolved, but what we wanted from this long-awaited reunion wasn’t progression — just seductive...

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