{"id":2278,"date":"2017-05-09T13:12:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-seether-poison-the-parish\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T22:11:01","slug":"review-seether-poison-the-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-seether-poison-the-parish\/","title":{"rendered":"Review:\u00a0Seether – Poison the Parish"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Having reached the commercial heights of the post-grunge boom during the 2000’s, this decade has resembled a fall from grace for South African trio Seether<\/b>. Latest efforts \u2018Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray’<\/i> and \u2018Isolate and Medicate’<\/i> sounded tired and rushed compared to the character driven hard rock that fuelled \u2018Disclaimer’<\/i> and \u2018Karma and Effect.’<\/i><\/p>\n

Sixth album \u2018Poison the Parish’<\/i> is an attempt for the band to rectify any accusations of weakening, as they unleash riffs with a heavier, chunkier tone than their recent efforts. Opener \u2018Stoke the Fire’<\/i> sees frontman Shaun Morgan performing with an air of gritty determination, boasting: \u2018I promise not to fight if you say you don’t like it, I bet you can’t, I bet you can’t’.<\/i> Their streamlined songwriting which merges pop hooks with Alice in Chains-esque heavy melancholy has become the Seether<\/b> standard by now, but it’s good to hear the band feel like they mean it again.<\/p>\n

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However, the charm of this rejoicing begins to wear off quickly. \u2018Betray and Degrade’<\/i> is another fine offering of angst emblazoned rock with a tonne of bounce, but once the plodding \u2018Something Else’<\/i> opens with the pace and energy of a beached whale, the appeal of the album begins to plummet hard. The overbearing sincerity on tracks like \u2018Let Me Heal’<\/i> and \u2018Against the Wall’s’<\/i> shot at sensitive Jimmy Eat World-style balladry isn’t fun for anyone, and even the more uptempo tracks like \u2018Saviours’<\/i> suffer from taking themselves too seriously.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the appeal of \u2018Poison the Parish’<\/i> is that it was billed as being the heaviest Seether<\/b> album to date, and while it is sonically heavier, the emotional weight added to it removes the subtle humour that gave their earlier material a little more personality. What we’re left with is a needlessly gloomy record from a band that seems to be running out of ideas.<\/p>\n

2\/5<\/p>\n

‘Poison the Parish’<\/i> by Seether<\/b> is released on 12th May on Canine Riot Records<\/b> \/ Concord<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Seether<\/b> links: Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Andy Davidson (@AndyrfDavidson<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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