Seether - Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces
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Free Music Review: awesome cd
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD is excellent. I have all their CD and while the other reviewer is correct that this CD is a little more polished than other CDs what do you expect as a band matures. I love every song on the album and can't stop listening to it.Free Music Review: AWESOME!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD is awesome! I really love the artwork of the front and back cover of the CD. It reminds me of Japanese Anime. The songs on here are good. Seether is awesome! Yay!Free Music Review: Another GREAT CD by Seether!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great CD that compares to their earlier releases. The lyrics are deep and the music is outstanding. Makes everything else out there seem obsolete. So many solid 10's such as; Rise Above This (similar to Sympathetic), Waste (awesome rock anthem that sends a chill up your spine), No JC (creative great angry lyrics), Six Gun Quota (just a great hard rock song), Fallen (cultish like Remedy), Like Suicide (hard rock at it's best), Don't Believe (bone crushing drums and bass). It is a must have! WASTE IS TODAY'S FREEBIRD!!
01/25/2008 Update - I've been listening to this CD on and off now for 3 months. IT STILL ROCKS!! Nothing else can compare. Do yourself a favor and get it, look at all the positive reviews, it is so deep and never gets old. It's in between Nirvana and Ozzy, how can you go wrong with that.
Free Music Review: The Changing of the Seasons...Seether's Third Studio Release
Hit: 3 Stars
I have precious little to add in terms of where I think this band is headed musically. This is a truly diverse album in that not every song can be fitted into the formulaic molds left by Disclaimer and Karma & Effect. Whether this is a good thing, of course, remains very much up for debate, and the best I can offer is a song by song review:
1. Like Suicide (9/10) - I had been anticipating this track for some time, given the studio outtakes that have been floating around online. It's a decent enough track, one of the few in which Shaun's guitar riffs almost manage to make up for Pat's departure from the band. The addition of some nice vocal harmonies was a treat for me, but again, this is the kind of addition that is up for debate. A good opening track, in any case.
2. Fake It (10/10) - A great song, released months ago so as to give us all high hopes for this album. I particularly enjoy the drumming, which includes a beat pattern suspisciously similar to Green Day's "Holiday". It grinds away in its own right and is so catchy that this album could forseeably ride it's coattails for a good while.
3. Breakdown (6/10) - A radio-friendly addition, with lyrics that very much attest to this fact. This is the kind of track that, while topically maintaining some of Seether's earlier elements, is pushing in an entirely new direction. In my mind, however, this is not a direction I should like to hear - it being covered by a host of other bands. Still, not particularly bad.
4. FMLYHM (8/10) - More Green Day influences in the opening bit before Shaun pipes up. A lot of reviewers seem to object to the apparently overdone lyrics, but I'll admit I enjoy the way he spits them out, especially in the chorus. This is a funny song...lighter than previous Seether, yet angry like previous Seether, and musically reminiscent of something caught between Korn, Three Days Grace, and Nickelback.
5. Fallen (7/10) - Here more than at any other point in this album, I'm wishing Pat was still there to really make the heavier guitar riffs come to life; Shaun gives a worthy effort, but there's still something missing. Definitely moving closer towards Nickelback with this track. I do enjoy the solo, however.
6. Rise Above This (3/10) - I really have nothing to say about this track. Nothing special, nothing even remotely resembling what I like about Seether. Again, change is clearly inevitable, but this is not the type of change I believe a band of Seether's unique talent needs to be making.
7. No Jesus Christ (6/10) - I'm not sure quite what to make of this song. At 7:04, it's definitely the most spacious thing Seether has done to this point. Musically, there is almost nothing innovative, however, and it sounds to me like the band is equally confused as to where this song is suppose to take us. Still, heavy enough to warrant mention, just very odd.
8. 6 Gun Quota (3/10) - See Rise Above This.
9. Walk Away From The Sun (3/10) - A sound so strikingly similar to Nickelback, it makes me nostalgic for heavier days gone by. I do not mean to suggest that I think Nickelback is a bad band, quite the opposite - they have found their niche in the rock world. The tragedy is that Seether is now attempting to share that niche.
10. Eyes Of The Devil (7/10) - A slightly higher score for this track simply because it's not happy music. Even the solo conveys this sense of desperation. Quite enjoyable.
11. Don't Believe (6/10) - This song kind of reminds me of "Diseased" with it's atmospheric verses mixed with heavier choruses. Select Tool influences are certainly detectable. I enjoy this track, but again, I do believe it could prosper from a second guitarist to both heavy things up and to move it along a bit more...this seems a bit sluggish for some reason.
12. Waste (9/10) - I think this was an excellent track to close the album with. Quite a jump from the sounds of Disclaimer or Karma & Effect, but in this case, I quite enjoy the departure. I have to laugh during the verses because I'm quite sure I hear Garth Brooks poking his head up at times. Great chorus, full of emotion and good use of backing vocals. Nice and dark, also.
Free Music Review: 3 Star Quota
Hit: 3 Stars
Why is this album not as satisfying as Seether's past albums? Why does it sound recycled, like just about anything else you'll hear on radio these days? Is it due to drug problems that eventually led to a stint in rehab last summer for frontman Shaun Morgan? Is it the firing of second guitarist Pat Callahan, who gaves 2005's "Karma & Effect" some much needed dimension? Is it the fact that producer Howard Benson, who produced crossover hits for the likes of Hoobastank and Papa Roach, had a hand in the production?
Whatever it is, one thing is for sure: "Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces" just isn't up to par. Even the strongest songs sound like b-sides to previous albums, and aside from an exception or two, the new territory they tread here doesn't pan out well at all. The thing that set Seether aside from most of their contemporaries was always frontman Shaun Morgan's honest delivery. Even if they weren't always creating the freshest music or if Morgan wasn't spewing the most original lyrics, you could almost always feel the passion in his voice. Listen to songs from past albums like "The Gift," "Driven Under" and the original version of "Broken" to hear what I mean. Unfortunately, the passionate, honest side of him is hardly shown on this album, except when he states that he can "fake it with the best of them" on the first single, "Fake It." Afterall, this album is, if nothing else, Seether going through the motions.
One song that does stand out, however, is "No Jesus Christ." A seven-plus minute long slowburner that seeths like older Seether and yet, sounds nothing like anything they have done in the past. Unfortunately this song is slapped right in the middle of the album, sandwiched in between embarassing arena-rock like "Rise Above This" and the generic, repetitive fodder of "Fake It." A few gems sprinkled in between -- "Like Suicide" and "Eyes Of The Devil" -- have a familiar feel to them and hold up just fine next to older material. The main problem, though, still remains that there aren't enough moments like this to qualify this as a great album, like the others. It's good enough, I suppose. Afterall, every band is entitled to one mediocre affair, and Seether have survived enough hardships to justify this one. If you don't mind hearing a great band water down their sound, you might just like this better than their other albums, but for everyone else, you'll have trouble finding beauty in this space.