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Chris Cornell's 'Scream' has recently been stimulating discussion and description across a range of top-flight media. Entertainment Weekly compares the album to Michael Jackson's legendary "Thriller" and calls key track 'Time', "the funkiest song to bear that title since Sly Stone's", while The Huffington Post evokes Marvin Gaye's classic 'What's Going On'. The UK's Classic Rock talks about Scream's "atmospheric production", while the Wall Street Journal emphasises the album's move towards "more soulful" vocals and "beats that are more common to dancefloors than mosh pits."

Several reviews emphasise Scream's genre-bending oddness: Rolling Stone calls it a "strange mutation", Billboard calls it "bizarre", a "blend of Chris Cornell's trademark grunge-soul growl and Timbaland's percolating computer grooves". The Huffington Post calls the album "proggy, r&b-driven...a successful melange of concepts initiated on 'Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby' with some Gnarls Barkley served as a side dish." Entertainment Weekly applauds Cornell's ability to evolve "without tarnishing his hard-rawkin' legacy". And Ireland's Hot Press says Scream "pushes at the boundaries of plausibility" but "makes perfect sense".