★★★★★
Sound: This band is great, & this album shows it. One minute, their guitars are roaring & drums are being pounded into the ground. The next, they take a raggae take type feel & let what's being said be heard. It's cool to see what an array of music they can make. It's the best variety in an album I've seen for a while. // 10 Lyrics and Singing: The lyrics in this album did bring out the dude's feelings, but it sounded like he was just reading them, not singing...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: This album was probably Alien Ant Farm at their best. The band's drummer Mike Cosgrove plays great jazz-rock inspired rhythms to Terry Corso's guitar parts. I'd have to admit that Cosgrove, although he plays awesomely energetic original drum parts, reminds me sometimes of Limp Bizkit's John Otto. As for the guitar parts, Corso commonly plays riffs that revolve around a progression of harmonic intervals (a root note, and a fifth, fourth, or major or minor third)...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
With every batch of CDs I get to review at PopMatters, there's always a handful that promise some new amount of rock crunch. All too often I'm usually left disappointed by the discs, usually because the lead singer can't stop screaming his head off and the guitarist knows nothing but speed metal power chords that were already old by 1987. However, every so often there is an album that truly delivers on its promise and actually surprises me...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Major label album #1 was a fluke hit, spurred by a Michael Jackson cover and Oompa Loompas. Major label album #2 was a surprisingly lucid, serious, and strong followup, emotionally bolstered by the horrific bus accident that preceded its recording. So where does that leave major label album #3...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
One of the great rock 'n' roll stories: Band makes hit record. Gets real famous. Struck by tragedy, nearly killed. Creates a stellar comeback album detailing said tragedy. Regains spotlight. Now, this disaster could be drug abuse/overdose, loss of an extremity, adultery exposed, death of a friend, plane crash, car crash, etc. Whatever adversity there is to overcome, the band is stronger for having gone through the ordeal--hopefully...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Alien Ant Farm's outlook was grim after the May 2002 tour bus accident that claimed the life of the band's driver in Spain. Vocalist Dryden Mitchell underwent surgery to repair a fractured vertebra and was forced to wear a metal halo to restrict his movement during his lengthy rehabilitation, and the other bandmembers suffered various injuries. On "truANT," the fully recovered members of Alien Ant Farm return with a new urgency, as if to prove they aren't just a Michael Jackson cover band...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Sophomore records are always a bitch. So much to live up to (like the breakthrough nu-metal cover of Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal). Produced by the DeLeo Brothers (half of Stone Temple Pilots), TruANT pisses and burns with harmonized vocals and power-chord kill riffs. Drifting Apart, These Days and Glow all add a certain level of cool that will help keep Alien Ant Farm out of the realms of one-hit-wonderdom...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
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- spin.com
2010-08-25
★★★★★
Sound: The first association that comes to your mind when you hear Alien Ant Farm is "Smooth Criminal" and "...yeah, they have that fat dude on bass!" Unfortunately it's not even nearly true now. Deadly tour bus crash in 2002, line-up changes, breakdown records, problems with a record label -- the black cloud left a mark on the mood and the relationship in the band...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
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