Artist: Seether
Title: Holding on to Strings Better left to Fray
Genre: Post Grunge / Alternative Metal
Release Date: 13th May 2011
Label: Wind up Records/EMI
Album Review
If you are not familiar with the Quinque Viae, it is a sum of the five arguments St. Thomas Aquinas made up in order to prove that God exists. He was wrong of course. Now, I’m really proud but embarrassed at the same time, to present the sixth one which is that SEETHER managed to make another one album. It is a miracle, had it been known to the Vatican it would lead to the immediate beatification of John Paul II. Continuously feeding on the carcass of Grunge they released this album, a collection of Corn and Hillibilly Mainstream Metal for the enraged and troubled youth of the South. I empathise; the world is full of problems and the biggest one is where to park your tractor in order to watch their concert. There are times that Frank Zappa comes to my mind singing “We Are Only In It For The Money”. It holds for the BEATLES and surely for SEETHER among many others.
I also had a moment of epiphany; I played it on mute and I enjoyed the silence, the singing birds, the sound of the cars, the sirens and everything. I’ve noticed how charming the urban sounds can be. Then I put the sound on again and I was thinking of the famous quote of Sartre “God is absence”. Ha! Jean-Paul, if that were true then this band would never have formed in the first place. But my fellow atheists, don’t despair, these arguments disappear the moment you’ll use their CD as a sous-verre (a coaster, if you prefer the English term)! Which song is saved from this shipwreck? More than likely the ‘Country Song’ and the ‘Master of Disaster’ but in your position I’d never send a ship to collect them from the ocean. They deserve to sink as well. I hope that in their next album they will drop the Grunge part and will be concentrating in the Country Metal. The only thing that it is astonishing in this CD is the sound production. Such a pity that the perfectionist Brendan O’Brien, the producer, does not write music...
Tracklist
01. No Resolution – 3:08
02. Here and Now – 3:55
03. Country Song – 3:49
04. Master of Disaster – 4:18
05. Tonight – 3:44
06. Pass Slowly – 3:27
07. Fade Out – 3:54
08. Roses – 4:17
09. Down – 3:57
10. Desire for Need – 3:33
11. Forsaken – 4:21
Line-up
Shaun Morgan – Lead vocals & Guitar
Dale Stewart – Back vocals & Bass
Troy McLawhorn – Lead guitar
John Humphrey – Drums
Websites
http://www.seether.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/seether
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 4
Sound: 10
Total: 7 / 10
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