Modern music has a wide variety of confusing labels that are applied to different genres. “Emo,” for instance — who’s to say what’s emo or not? Dashboard Confessional? The Cure? Yanni? Regardless of who tries, it’s bound to result in an argument or two. <\/p>\n
Another label that’s difficult to define is “nu-metal,” which came to the fore in the late ’90s as a result of the post-grunge movement. Most people think of nu-metal as angry music with little substance, and using that definition I can’t classify InMe as nu-metal. <\/p>\n
Nor can InMe be post-grunge, which combines the anthemic sound of arena rock with the seriousness of the grunge movement (think bands like Live, Candlebox and Creed).\u00a0 The band produces a combination of melodic drama and hard rock, and White Butterfly <\/i>is a good example of what they do. Not a great one, but a good one. <\/p>\n
The disc is a tribute to James Austin, a friend of bass player Joe Morgan’s who passed away after an accident in 2002. Labels aside, said music is fairly impressive, especially for a band whose popularity hasn’t heavily extended outside Europe yet. The first single, “7 Weeks,” sounds vaguely like the bastard child of Korn and My Chemical Romance, combining a memorable underlying riff with angst-ridden lyrics. <\/p>\n
Highlights of the album include the other singles: “Faster The Chase” is a mellow rock track that’s vaguely reminiscient of Alien Ant Farm, while “Otherside” is a slower tune featuring frontman Dave McPherson’s vocals over a searing guitar riff. The title track also gained some popularity, though I didn’t find myself enjoying it all that much; it’s extremely soft and calm when compared to the rest of the album, causing it to sound out of place. <\/p>\n
The most noteworthy track is “Just a Glimpse,” which managed a fair amount of American airplay after the album’s release. The lyrics to this one are about as melodramatic (read: lame) as any I’ve heard, but they’re easy to ignore thanks to the awesome guitar and bass action. <\/p>\n
White Butterfly<\/i> isn’t the greatest album ever released; that honor is reserved for Yanni’s 1994 epic Bananaphone<\/i>. However, it’s not bad at all, and definitely worth a try. While the lyrics are rarely rise above awful (sample: “Sweet, sour, flavor (still crying)\/ Your taste makes me cringe and smile”), the technical ability of the band as a whole is impressive, and that’s enough to make the album worth a reccomendation. Hopefully they’ll get some better writers for their upcoming third album Daydream Anonymous<\/i>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":28671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7900],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-40158","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-inme","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40158"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}