Life Is Peachy

Life Is Peachy is a fulfilling second album on which Korn’s low, undulating heavy guitar and bass, bouncing rhythm and Jonathan Davis’s urgent voice collide directly. Following the success of the shocking, genre-creating debut, it is a record made powerfully in a shorter span. The songs are rough and at times uneasy, yet their overwhelming groove powerfully drags the whole album forward. A record that has not lost the debut’s intensity in the least. From the aggression of the opener “Twist,” mixing scat, and the drama of “Good God” to the bouncing popular “A.D.I.D.A.S.,” every song is engaging, while cuts like “Chi” and “Mr. Rogers,” satirizing a TV show, convey the work’s fullness. Jonathan Davis’s emotion-baring singing is powerfully in sharp form throughout. A truly striking record for the way it made stranger, more fragmentary emotion into raw sound, rather than merely repeating the previous work’s shock. It powerfully pushes forward the bodily quality and deep confessional quality of nu-metal with an intense character. A powerful, engaging record letting you fully savor early Korn’s rough appeal — a record where the band’s early impulse shines.