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“I would love people to say: ‘F**k, he can write a good song.’”
This time last year, Corey Taylor was promoting a very different album. We Are Not Your Kind, his dark, deeply personal sixth with Slipknot, emerged from the aftermath of a “very toxic” relationship. “It was me purging myself of the poisons that one would kind of ascertain from escaping a cult, in a lot of ways,” he says. “It was almost like I had to make that album to be able to make this one.” By contrast, “this one”, his debut solo record, CMFT (Corey Mother-Fucking Taylor), is a feelgood love letter to 80s hard rock, glam rock, rap and more - all big riffs and bigger tunes.