Innerpartysystem: ‘Don’t Stop’
Innerpartysystem’s ‘Don’t Stop’ fuses some diverse and interesting sounds to create an extremely likeable piece of music, one which suggests they’re a band worthy of their current worldwide tour that will see them play across the UK, America and Australia.
This single blends an electro-dance core with a powerful rock-inspired rhythm which, when combined with a vocal that successfully crosses the boundary between rock and emo provides something really quite different from much of the post-rock music of America at present.
What impresses most is the depth within the record, a multi-layered piece that would suggest more than just four men were required to create it, as well as some genuinely well constructed lyrics that intimate towards self-loathing and a distain towards the music industry without relying on cliché to provide the emphasis – something perhaps to be expected from a band who cite George Orwell as the major influence behind their name.
Innerpartysystem seem capable of drawing on eclectic and contrasting influences and yet combine them to make a record that works – it sounds much simpler than it must have been to create, as when dissected ‘Don’t Stop’ is an extremely complex piece of craftmanship. For me this represents what good music should be about – complexity delivered in an accessible way, without compromising influences or style which in-so doing challenges the boundaries of various genres. A cracking single.
8/10
Review by Benjamin Coley.
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