The 1,700-word review has gone the way of the dot-matrix printer and, for the most part, we're not complaining. But Chuck Klosterman's piece on the (apparently forthcoming) new Guns N' Roses record is worth the read. Sure, in places he's too cute by half ("Reviewing Chinese Democracy is not like reviewing music. It's more like reviewing a unicorn"), but the finer points of his long-distance psychoanalysis of Axl Rose are argued well enough to be both plausible and entertaining. To wit: "Sometimes Chinese Democracy suffers from the same inescapable problem that paralyzed proto-epics like 'Estranged' and 'November Rain': It's as if Axl is desperately trying to get some unmakeable dream song from inside his skull onto the CD." (And that's from a guy who actually likes the album.) Those who are interested can read the rest here.