★★★★★
Sound: At first I was really disappointed with this album, and then I decided I was letting the low points dictate how I felt about the entire album. At its worst this album has weak hooks and breakdowns and the vocal delivery is bland. When distorted the guitar is over-compressed and lifeless. Any time throughout the album there are lead guitar parts they are mixed too low and just sound like noise under the rhythm guitar...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: Have you ever been so low in life that you think there is nothing else? Nothing to help? Nothing to save you? Have you ever been so mad at something or someone, that all rational thought is thrown out the window? Those of you who know what I'm talking about know exactly how they feel while listening to Disclaimer. Each song triggers a different emotion. From "69 Tea's" catchy tune, to the hard hitting anthem of "F--k It." Each song has a creepy feel to it...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: What can I say? This album f--king rocks. I mean, Seether really turn a different turn on this one. Making it a hell of alot heavier and less melodic. Seether is probably thing best thing to come out of South Africa. I love how they used different pitch harmonics for it. Which tells you that they are using heavier strings now. 'cause you can't do a 4th fret harmonic on 9 or 10 guage strings. I give it a 5 for sound. It blows Disclaimer cout of the water and rips it to pieces...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: Seether's sound is awesome! They are a bit Nirvana sounding but they are more metal-ish and more hard rocking. Shaun Morgan has a great voice and instrument work is top notch! // 10 Lyrics and Singing: Shaun Morgan is one of the best vocalist, as well as a lyricist in today's rock. The lyrics are probably the most honest I've seen for a while and you can relate to every song on this CD. // 10 Impression: This is the best Seether album to date, period...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: Back when MTV's Unplugged set the stage for some of the most memorable stage shows, namely both Nirvana and Alice In Chain's haunting performances, going acoustic could provide a new and novel way of hearing the songs you already loved electric. Not to say that magic is not possible with today's bands, but it's definitely harder to come by...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: Seether's post grunge sound is somewhat bemusing in the midst of emo's sustained popularity. It is therefore necessary to commend the South Africans for sticking inexorably to their guns and avoiding a genre change. Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces begins on a placid but tense note with Welgemoed's crooned vocals being complemented by a smoothly picked guitar section, before the rhythm section kicks in...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
We're not huge fans of 'deluxe editions' here at The Music Fix, especially if it's just a case of asking fans to double dip for relatively new albums they already have. To be fair to South African rockers Seether however, this is the first time Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray has been issued in the UK (a full ten months after its American debut) and they have at least tried to soften the blow by throwing in a bonus DVD of acoustic material and a few remixes...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2012-03-12
★★★★★
On Seether's fifth studio album, Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray, Shaun Morgan shows that he's still angry, brooding and tackling his demons through his songwriting...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2011-06-20
★★★★★
In the press materials for the thoroughly turgid Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray--that title only hints at the tedium to come--singer-songwriter Shaun Morgan of South African moan-rock trio Seether muses that "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." If that's the case, then Seether has dibs on being the craziest band in the hauntingly barren, fallow sphere of modern rock...
- www.avclub.com
2011-06-20
Loading...
