Artist: Innaway
Album: Innaway
Label: Some
Tracks: 10

Length: 38:18

Review by: Mark Fisher

 

 

 

 

 

Innaway is one of those bands that you just can’t wrap your mind around. They have recently performed alongside artists like Pinback, Blonde Redhead, and French Kicks. This album was self-produced in the bands own studio and the production is superb.  

 

Part Pink Floyd, part Portishead, part Daddy G, part classic rock, and all around confusing, the band delivers a debut that is equal parts catchy and annoying. Most of the album is fuzzy with heavy reverb vocals but occasionally the band bursts through the wall of noise with a truly great song like “Stolen Days” or the misleading, yet promising, album opener “Threat Hawk.”

 

In my opinion the biggest deterrent on this album are the experimental pieces like “Post FM” and “Tiny Brains.” They could be really interesting pieces in the right light but the band chooses to muddle up the sound so bad that they come off as meaningless repetition. Perhaps, that’s what they intended but it just doesn’t work.

 

There are a lot of really great, interesting, epic ideas on this album; the band just doesn’t quite pull it off. Maybe time and experience will help that along but until then I’d check out some song samples first. It’s not that there aren’t any good songs here; it’s just that they seem to have gotten in the classic “Let’s try this…and this…and this…and this…etc.” studio mentality.