Euphoria Mourning by Chris Cornell

Euphoria Mourning, Chris Cornell's first solo album, came out on September 21, 1999, in the gap between the end of Soundgarden and the start of Audioslave. Cornell produced it himself and first issued it as Euphoria Morning; the 2015 reissue restored the title he'd wanted all along.

Anyone expecting the sludge and scream of his old band got something quieter and stranger: moody, melancholy songs with room to breathe, that huge voice pulled back to a croon and let loose only when a song demands it. "Can't Change Me", the lead single, is a gorgeous, chiming slow-burner, and it earned a Grammy nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. The album sold more modestly than his band records, though it still moved more than 75,000 copies in its first week and over 393,000 in the U.S., and critics warmed to it. He took it on the road in 2000.

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