Innaway

Innaway | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 14, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Some Records
• ASIN: B0009J2S1Q
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #365,734 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Threat Hawk

2. The Strings of North Egg

3. Tiny Brains

4. Rise

5. Fall

6. Follow Moon

7. Post FM

8. Golden

9. Stolen Days

10. George Walker on Water

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars This review taken from Slant Magazine (slantmagazine.com), June 14, 2005

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Threathawk (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Innaway (Audio CD)

Innaway doesn't make the kind of music you'd expect to come out of Orange County in 2005. A fusion of classic rock and modern electronica, the O.C. five-piece's music is dark and moody, sporting a singular sound that, like Air's ethereal ambient pop, is familiar but not nostalgic, atmospheric but not alienating or inhuman. Innaway's self-titled debut begins with the Zeppelin-style "Threathawk," a lone harmonica joined by drums, guitar, and backseat vocals that weave in and out of the band's tightly textured song-work. This attention to detail makes Innaway ripe for repeat visits: the album's centerpiece, a suite comprised of the dirgy "Rise" and "Fall," begins with crickets chirping and moves fluidly from an organ melody that sounds like it was lifted from an old ColecoVision videogame to melancholic guitar and a bristling, electrifying coda. A pair of brief, Eno-esque instrumental soundscapes come three-quarters through the album, the first ("Post FM") transposing a wispy Fleetwood Mac-sounding melody onto a plot of break beats, and the second ("Golden") mismatching distorted, spliced-up beats and a mesmerizing '80s AOR keyboard-synth hook. If Innaway's sound is hard to pigeonhole, it's because their myriad influences (from Pink Floyd to Air and even The Flaming Lips) are so starkly contrasted that it makes for something almost entirely new, if not completely original. And, with the sole exception of the final track, the pointedly titled "George Walker On Water," the album skirts being time-stamped-in a way, it could have been recorded at any point in the last 30 years.

Sal Cinquemani
© slant magazine, 2005

5.0 out of 5 stars Innaway Rocks, March 13, 2007

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Joshua Lyon (Costa Mesa, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Innaway (Audio CD)

I randomly found out about innaway while shopping for t-shirts online. Strangely enough, I moved to southern california a few months later and found out that the band is actually from the city I moved to. They're definitely my favorite band now (seen them 8 times live). Now, on to the album review. It's hard for me to describe what Innaway actually sounds like. The best I've come up with is that they're a fusion between Radiohead, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin. I think comparisons don't really do them justice, though, as they simply have to be heard to be appreciated. The album blends from psychedlic rock to ambient melodies and back to psychedlic rock again. Some of the tracks are here might take a few listenings before they can be enjoyed, but once you can listening straight through is pure liquid awesome.

5.0 out of 5 stars Instant Classic Rock, December 18, 2005

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Vincent Ferrante (WWW.WITCHHUNTERCOMIC.COM) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Innaway (Audio CD)

It is a testament to true genius and perfect beauty when something is not only greater than the sum of its parts, but when its sound can reflect those parts while forging a unique identity of its own.

Innaway seamlessly fuses influences like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Radiohead into an ambient bluesy trip into the depths of space, time, heart, and mind. The music touches the heart, moves the spirit, and excites the mind/body with dulcet tones, insightful lyrics that give weight to the sweeping scores without weighing them down, and a hip-shaking swagger from a rhythm section that could make the levy break...again.

Innaway's music needs to be heard to be felt, and no words can describe what your ears will tell you. If you remember the liberating kick you got when you first heard Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd and want to experience that feeling with a band that puts new blood into an old vein buy this album, tell your friends to buy it, and help sounds like this that were made from a love of music, a nod to the past, and a lack of convention spread. This goes to 11.