InMe - White Butterfly (Review: Dan)

I'm a big fan of InMe, I'm going to see them quite soon and am looking forward to it a lot. However, the only InMe I listen to is their latest album Daydream Anonymous. Despite the fact that I am in possession of their entire discography. For some reason I've never listened to it.

So, reluctantly (this is another album I've always claimed to hate) I started listening to this at work. It kicks off with 7 Weeks - a song which I really enjoyed. For some bizarre reason it reminded me of Enter Shikari though I can't place any musical similarities. Next up was So You Know. I think the vocals are really good on this song, but I have a feeling (I'm listening to it now and I still have this feeling) that there are no verses. I'm fairly certain it's just one chorus repeated throughout the song. Well, I suppose you could say there are no choruses and it is just one verse repeated throughout... If there are verses/choruses then they clearly aren't very good/noticable.

Otherside, I think, is a song that I know because the Pughs always put it on in the car. In this song Dave's vocals are mixed, from a strange, pretty rubbish whispering noise to some decent, yet nothing that I haven't heard before and some also pretty shit 'screaming'. A pretty average song.
Faster the Chase is another song is awful, in my opinion. It is ruined by the vocals, and the music is fairly basic.

You'll Get There has some more strange whispering (I hate whispering in music) but it also has some brilliant vocals. I'm starting to think that I am some sort of vocal-obsessed maniac. But this is what I like in most music, and this is probably because I've not grown up around music, I don't know how to play an instrument and just don't understand the technicalities behind it so I find it very difficult to judge musical ability. However, too much whispering ruins what could have been a good song. And his wierd screaming also spoils it.

I can't really be bothered to just sit here talking about every song on the album so I'll summarize now:
The album has a variety of strengths and weaknesses; the vocals fall under both of these categories - sometimes reaching great heights in both fields. The music can be quite calming and soothing and it can also be fast paced and exciting. At other times it gets boring, a sort of deja vu feeling occurs and I just think that I'm wasting my time when I could just be listening to Daydream Anonymous, which has everything I want and like from the band.

I'm finding it hard to score the album. I think that it has to be a 2.5/5 as it has some really good bits and some really bad bits. They balance each other out and it just sits right in the middle of the scales. Where it is going to gather dust.

Dan.