Infighter

Infighter bring their sound of Alternative Post Punk alive in their Self-Titled Debut Album.

Toronto’s Indie Rockers Infighter combines and blends the sounds of Alternative, Post Punk and ambient vocals to create what seems to be the way Indie Rock is weaving into.

A couple of influences that immediately break through Infighter’s sound are Radiohead, A little bit of the Cure, Depeche Mode, The Killers, and The Smiths.

The members of Infighter include Simeon Ross on Lead Vocals and Guitar, Brad Sveistrup on Guitar, Gail Thompson on Drums, Scott Hildebrandt on Bass, Amie Spears on vocals and Synth and Harrison Coe on the Keyboards

The album has a total of ten tracks that all seem to stay within the same boundaries of each other, so if you are a fan of one of their songs you will enjoy the entire album.

“Regret” is the lead track off of the album. At the start of the song there is a little catchy guitar riff that leads your ears into the song. What I like about their sound is their vocals, They are a mix between the Cures and The Smiths and Amie adds her ambient backing vocals that seem to illuminate the song. “Regret” borders along the lines of a slight electronic eighties/nineties sounding song because of the light backing sound of the synth and keyboards, but keeps inline with an alternative post punk sound.

“Lost Types” Now here is a song that your mind can get lost and wonder into an almost oasis state. Amie’s vocals just simply does the song in ( in the best way possible). As I listen to the song I don’t even really listen to any of the lyrics to the song but just to the instruments and focus on the backing vocals. Now I am not knocking Simeon on vocals in any way, but I just can’t seem to follow the lyrics at all. I think a good idea for this song would be to add “Lost Types” to their next album as a bonus track at the end of their album without the lyrics.

For my favourite track off of the album to pick as a lead single was a bit of a hard choice to make because of the relativity of each track has with each other. So in the end I left myself choosing between the three tracks that I have written about in this review. My final decision was a tie between “Regret” and “Lost Types”. It is the vocals between each track that makes it almost impossible for me to choose which one has a “Stronger sound” than the other.

One of my favourite characteristics that is brought forth to my attention and keeps shining from track to track is the vocals and “Believable” doesn’t let you down. The combination of the Simeon and Amie’s vocals just simply put works beautifully. One thing that I am finding throughout the album is that the tempo of the instruments always seems to be going a little bit quicker than the tempo of the vocals which I find makes their sound stick out a little more than others. Also the instruments have a bit of a sharper sound than the soft bass sounding vocals. The drums seem to make more of an appearance and noise in “Believable”. About three quarters of the way through the song the strength of the song seems to pickup a little bit which then slowly starts to taper off when the song is nearing the end.

For more information on where you can pick up your copy visit www.infighter.ca or www.myspace.com/infighter.