It's been six years since Soul Asylum has issued a new album. But as evidenced by the arrival of Delayed Reaction (the group's first release for 429 Records), the wait was most certainly worth it. Fans will be happy to discover the group's trademark ragged-but-right sound is still very much intact, and that they've turned back the clock to the good old days when full albums actually mattered - rather than just a smattering of singles padded with filler. And the proof is in the pudding - such tunes as "Gravity," "The Streets" and "By the Way" prove that Soul Asylum has created an incredibly consistent album from front to back.

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"It feels like approaching it as an album and a thing that has a sequence, and a thing that is a piece of work in itself is almost an archaic process," explains the band's singer/guitarist, Dave Pirner. "It's almost like there's no venue for it. Today, I was trying to find a CD player, and I can't tell you how frustrating that is, when you're making what you think is a CD, and there's no stores that sell them, and there's no players that play them! So be it, if that's the way you've got to stay in the game, that's the way you've got to stay in the game. I can't be a crotchety old man about it - it's how people are putting music out, and everyone can come to their own conclusions about what's the best way to get music to people. It's just different for people that are born in a different environment." Delayed Reaction (which was produced by the band, with additional input by John Fields) also marks the first Soul Asylum studio album to not feature original bassist Karl Mueller, who passed away from cancer in 2005. Ex-Replacements/current Guns N' Roses bassist Tommy Stinson is now a full band member, as is former Prince drummer Michael Bland.

Originally formed in 1983 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Soul Asylum has consistently issued heartfelt and passionate rock n' roll, first starting out on indie Twin/Tone, before scoring two major hits on Columbia, 1992's Grave Dancers Union (including the hit single "Runaway Train") and 1995's Let Your Dim Light Shine. And the group is one of the few rock acts that can say that they played a presidential inauguration, when they did so for Bill Clinton in 1993. Long one of the most electric live bands, Soul Asylum will be supporting Delayed Reaction with a mix of live dates. The delay is now over, Soul Asylum fans. Dave Pirner, Dan Murphy, Tommy Stinson, and Michael Bland are back, and have readied a very potent Delayed Reaction.