And when that’s all taken into account, In This Moment end up in the exact unstable position they’ve been in for a good, long time.Īnd you don’t even have to wait long until that all comes to fruition, as a cover of The Steve Miller Band’s Fly Like An Eagle sandwiched between two interludes to start the album off is a fair indicator of the botched decisions that feel rather prominent on Mother. Occasionally moments of quality do shine through, but that’s more from a law of averages perspective than what feels like any creative decision-making. For an album that’s aiming for something high-concept, In This Moment don’t do a whole lot to prove that they’re capable of pulling it off, and that leaves Mother feeling like sort of a mess. By the standards of In This Moment which can fall pretty low, this isn’t a terrible album, and the fact that they’ve strived to go beyond the means of typical radio-metal is good, but it’s so easy to happen upon flaws in the execution or decisions that just feel confused or with no real thought process behind them. All they’ve really got is in-scene inertia, and without the big crossover smash that plenty of other hard rock and alt-metal bands have that reaches out of their immediate catchment area – coupled with an overall sound and Brink’s delivery that can range from an acquired taste to totally unpalatable – it’s hard to get all that excited to see this band keep going, regardless of what they bring to the scene.Īnd if they were ever to come out with an album that epitomises that mindset, it would undoubtedly be Mother. But while that’s admirable, it can’t mask the fact that this is a band who feel desperately deep in the ‘style over substance’ well, such is the lack of real prevailability their material has had for a good few years now. In a hard rock scene that’s glutted with facsimiles of posturing, meatheaded bros with little impetus to move past that, there’s at least a bit of deviation coming from In This Moment, thanks to a reliance on image especially spurned on by frontwoman Maria Brink, and a sound that’s been known to incorporate electronics and industrial touches to at least attempt to stand as its own thing. For as hokey as they can often appear, there is a genuinely understandable reason for why people like In This Moment.
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