★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentTweetShare Getting Want We Want For The Sun Comes Out Tonight, Filter frontman Richard Patrick, with the help of newly-added guitar hero Jonny Radtke, screams and screams his way to recapturing the inspired industrial menace of the band's '90s-era staples, Short Bus and Title of Record, albeit with a few modern flourishes that, for better and worse, defy and, in some instances, clearly reveal their age...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-06-10
★★★★★
3/5"Take a Picture" may be Filter's biggest chart hit, but we'll always be partial to "Hey Man, Nice Shot" and the songs that let main man Richard Patrick vent, fume, and bleed a little bit. Fortunately, that's what Patrick favors on his sixth Filter album, a 12-song set that went through a couple of permutations but still bristles with industrial-strength angst on tracks such as "We Hate It when You Get What You Want," "This Finger's For You," and the particularly brutal "Self Inflicted...
- www.revolvermag.com
2013-06-06
★★★★★
A far cry from being a total change of hats, Title of Record this time varies the pleasures, alternating their classic explosions of rage with melodious mid-tempo ballads with almost acoustic tones. Even if Filter has always had a sense of melody in the middle of its fire of guitars, this time the group goes further by calming the tempo on certain pieces in order to concentrate on melody...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
For their third album Filter has decided to flex their muscle to be in sync with today's trends. As a result, The Amalgamut is an untidy and hardly homogeneous effort that cruelly lacks spontaneity while the melodious songs are drowned in an indigestible racket...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Sound: Bring up the band Filter as a topic of conversation with some of today's die-hard listeners and the almost forgotten single "Take A Picture" will come up as subject number one. Society adores latching onto 90s' rock gems with soft, heartwarming innards, but is it a shame to solely associate an artist with a song that was released almost 11 years ago? The Trouble With Angels says "yes"...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
If Filter have done anything in the days since their breakthrough Short Bus (1995) and the multi-platinum follow-up Title of Record ('99), it's prove the possibility of making heavy music without becoming a cliché. And so it is on their third, The Amalgamut. Originally a fusion of electronic and guitar-based writing, the contentious exit of keyboardist and co-founder Brian Liesegang after Short Bus put the pressure on remaining creator/dictator Richard Patrick...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Filter went from Hey Man, Nice Shot to that marshmallow soft Take a Picture song in a matter of years. Their last record appeared and disappeared in 2002, as did the band. So. you'd think that six years would yield an awesome or disastrous comeback album from Richard Patrick and his merry band of guest musicians (John 5, Wes Borland, Josh Freese), but truthfully, Anthems is somewhere in between...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Sound: After a stint in rehab and a go at the side project Army of Anyone, Richard Patrick has returned to his home base in Filter, which could now be called "The Richard Patrick Show." As the only original member left in Filter, Patrick takes the opportunity to ponder everything from addiction to the Iraqi war on his new record Anthems For The Damned, all the while dabbling in a sound that is a cross between both of his bands...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Sound: This album has to be one of my favourite albums of all time. The way this album has been produced is excellent. Half of the album is metal (don't run away yet, let me finish), but the style in which it's played sounds so nice. The chords are usually open or played in an emotive way (think of the chords in the verse of everlong by the foo fighters). The drumming is some of the best I've ever heard, with syncopated rhythms and double bass...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
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