See You On The Other Side
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While some recent Korn records sometimes got lost in the sludge, "Twisted Transistor" and other new tracks reach back to find harsh, and intimate, hard-rock hooks. [6 Dec 2005]
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Sonically stunning stuff. [16 Dec 2005, p.80]
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If rap-metal were ever meant to evolve, See You on the Other Side is the record that does it.
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80Korn have succeeded in bringing mainstream producers to inject freshness into their songs, without entering into a Faustian bargain and compromising their music.
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70Fusing strange, arresting rhythms with gothic atmospheres, these surprisingly modern-sounding soundscapes should earn Korn a deserved second wind. [Jan 2006, p.127]
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"See You on the Other Side" turns out to be Korn's version of a Nine Inch Nails album - a good one. [5 Dec 2005]
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60Less scary but more melodic, Korn guns for hits, not street cred. [Mar 2006, p.113]
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Unfortunately, singer Jonathan Davis can't find the focus and freshness to match the band's reanimated riffs.
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60For the most part, the producers simply add audio garnishing to Korn's signature sound via loops and Pro Tools trickery. [10 Dec 2005]
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60Its center becomes weighed down with bland mid-tempo numbers and the final song detracts from the powerhouse close the record might have had.
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If you scratch below the surface of 'See You On The Other Side' you'll find little of substance. [3 Dec 2005, p.43]
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50Has a polish that verges on parody.
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40Korn are too lumpen to handle 'sophisticated.' [Jan 2006, p.102]
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30Despite this album's production credits reading like a PhD thesis, Korn's commercial masterplan is fatally undermined by certain glaring weaknesses, the main one being that their singer is a dunderheaded, sexist, self-pitying fool.