INNERPARTYSYSTEM

Are INNERPARTYSYSTEM a rock band or a dance band with guitars chucked in? Well, who really cares this is just great music. Nine Inch Nails and Pendulum come to mind for obvious reasons: they straddle the two genres and INNERPARTYSYSTEM have come to join them.

It’s an immediate album that grabs you by the collars and pulls you into its mutant rock/dance/pop world: a maelstrom of synths, samples and guitars, that barely lets up for 50 minutes.

Almost every track could be dissected, but that’s boring and not what music is about or for. Though, there are three songs I would give special mention to: the poppy Heart of Fire, the dark and fetid This Empty Room, and the grim 'n’ sleazy This Town Your Grave.

The production is state of the art, but not sterile which is what one might expect for an album of this type. It’s actually quite warm and again unlike many electronica leaning records, it sounds as if the band is made up of people who have squishy organs inside them, rather than chips and fibre optics. Hooray for humans!