InMe
Daydream Anonymous LP
InMe return to public consciousness with their adjusted line-up (Dave’s brother Greg replaces Joe Morgan on bass) and with their new album Daydream Anonymous, which is a slick combination of EMO songs with powerful riffs.
Every song sounds much bigger than a three-piece, thanks to chunky guitar sounds and intricate drumming. The most spidery-guitared track is the opener, ‘Myths and Photographs’, which flies along the frets to create a massive weave of sound to contrast with the palm-muted synchronisation of the verse and the crashing drums of the chorus.
It’s a strong start and the excellence persists at least through the first half of the record with the fantastically shifting beat of ‘Far-Reaching’ and the first single, ‘I Won’t Let Go’ supplying some of the highlights.
Strangely, you wouldn’t put InMe in a box with the well-renowned experimentalists of current times, but there are flickers of inspired creativity in these tracks that’s right up there with the likes of Muse. The songs are just clearly more important than showing off for InMe.
Every three or four songs is a style intermission to shake things up and prevent ear-cramps from hearing too much of the same kind of thing. After these moments of respite, it’s back into the high-octane rifferamas and they sound all the better for it.
The third studio album is always viewed as being the make-or-break, the moment where bands can really shine or really flop. This record should see InMe rising higher than ever.
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