The Innits

On their first album Everything Is True, Berlin four-piece the iNNits delighted us with a charming yet gruff indie sound, drawing on rough guitar lines and vocal harmonies. Their second long-player, entitled On The Fence, maintains a continuity as far as the various subgenres, the sound aesthetics and the playing of the debut album are concerned, yet succeeds in refining them even further. The record's immediacy equals that of a live performance and surprises us with its varying degrees of musical density. The songs oscillate between scarce and opulent instrumentation, thus mirroring the impulsive and wayward lyrics. Here and there, clarinets, saxophones and cellos make an apparition, just to give way to psychedelic sixties harmonies or to the evocation of a dance band in glitter suits. Songwriter, singer and drummer Mek Obaam, who made his name as a sideman for Schneider TM and Barbara Morgenstern, as the drummer of The Boggs from NYC, has created an album which simply is a sparkling diamond.

Links

http://www.theinnits.com/