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SOUL ASYLUM - The Silver Lining
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| Blogcritics |
| The title of this, the ninth full length album from Soul Asylum, may bring to mind the old adage "every cloud has a silver lining" and the hopeful intent of the saying is exactly what the band was looking for. Even though the album was recorded during a dark emotional time for the band (founding member and bassist Karl Mueller was losing his battle with throat cancer) the music itself was a positive thing and completing it for Karl after his passing was the main focus for Soul Asylum....full text |
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| Harp Magazine |
| I got severe douche chills while listening to the opening track of Soul Asylum’s first CD in eight years. “Stand up and be strong / It won’t take long / You can’t go wrong” sings an earnest Dave Pirner, still of that superb scratchy voice but apparently no longer capable of penning words that don’t sound like they were lifted from Oprah. Pirner has always walked the fine line between clever and corny (“Misery,” anybody?), but The Silver Lining is filled with so many lyrical groaners that it’s uncomfortable....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| "I blow it out of proportion, make it loud beyond distortion,” Soul Asylum singer Dave Pirner avows late on The Silver Lining, but only in a song rightly called “The Great Exaggerator”. Pacific, calm, and tepid to the core, The Silver Lining in truth engulfs a platitudinal blandness in plodding adult-contemporary chord changes, to little discernable effect. As comebacks go, it makes one long for the relative glory days of 1998’s universally ignored Candy From a Stranger....full text |
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