"Let You Down" | ||||
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Single by Seether | ||||
from the album Poison the Parish | ||||
Released | February 23, 2017 | |||
Format | Digital download | |||
Recorded | 2016 | |||
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Length | 4:10 | |||
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Seether singles chronology | ||||
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"Let You Down" is a single by South African rock band Seether, the first off of their seventh studio album Poison the Parish. It peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in 2017.
The song was first revealed on February 23, 2017, the same day the band announced their seventh album – Poison the Parish. A music video was released on the same day of the song's release, which features many ominous, masked and cloaked carnival-themed people roaming through an open field. The footage cuts back and forth between the figures and the band performing in a dark, secluded cabin.
The track was self-produced by band frontman and lead vocalist Shaun Morgan, and was meant to represent the band's return to a heavier rock sound found in their earlier albums.Loudwire described the chorus as being "a little bit of a emotional reprieve" to the song's verses, calling it "sonically uplifting, but lyrically despondent." A few publications noted a similarity in the guitar riff and chord progression of the song to Chevelle's 2014 single "Take Out the Gunman", Live's 1997 single "Lakini's Juice" and Tool's 1996 single "Stinkfist".