Innerpartysystem - Not Getting Any Better (Single Review)
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Monday, 01 August 2011 |
Written by James Ball
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I had strong hopes for Innerpartysystem. They liked to sit on the fragile fence between dance and metal when releasing debut single 'Don’t Stop' a few years ago, and I loved every single second of it. It was intense, lyrically strong and able to get feet tapping and pulses racing. It would have been acceptable to listen to at Download and equally so at Global Gathering. It was a genre-breaker.
Then I bought the album, which was disappointing at best.
So here I am, with a copy of latest single 'Not Getting Any Better' really hoping my faith is restored in the band, a band who still prove they’re unashamed at being labelled alongside dance and rock at the same time by going on a US tour with pendulum before coming here to play Sonisphere. It should be a match made in heaven but Not Getting Any Better is probably the most apt name for it.
At best, it’s bland. Some 80s style synths combined with Patrick Nissleys sounds-like-its-autotuned-but-isn’t vocals are the best layers this song have to offer, but the off-beat drums, the random bleeps and tired old verse structure means that this single can just be filed with all the other dance rock attempts that have appeared, been reviewed, and fallen by the wayside.
 There’s a series of remixes though as B-sides, and none of them seem to offer anything that really takes the song in a new direction, except the Designer Drugs one which mostly sounds like making love to a circular saw and it’s all the better for it.
I can imagine this being really good live though. It has that level of atmosphere about it that could easily play to a festival crowd strengths. I think people who saw them at Sonisphere would have thought they were a new coming, but transferred to headphones in a bedroom it’s just a bit…meh.
I still hold onto that hope though. One day they’ll release another Don’t Stop and I’ll forgive them, but for now they’re back on the naughty stool.NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
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