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Rock
Release Date: 01/25/2005
Originally released in 2004 by the Boston-area
metal indie
Losing Face, the debut album by
post-hardcore supergroup
Seemless largely dispenses with the
hardcore and
emo aspects of the members' former bands in favor of a return to a more traditional
metal sound. Specifically,
Seemless is a bit of a throwback to the immediate post-
Nevermind era, when bands like
Alice in Chains and
Candlebox were melding
Black Sabbath and
Led Zeppelin with the new flannel-clad sound of
Pearl Jam and
Soundgarden. Lead singer
Jesse David Leach's outspoken Christianity lurks in the lyrics of tunes like
"Lay My Burden Down" and
"The Wanderer," but he smartly avoids proselytizing, and his forceful vocals almost never fall into the standard nu
metal clichés. The songs, largely written before
Leach joined, don't always fit comfortably with his lyrics and vocals: especially on the choruses,
Leach's parts sometimes feel pasted awkwardly onto already-completed tunes, and the record as a whole never quite catches fire.
~Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
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