Indoor Friends ‘Is It All Melting?’

Easy to listen and hard to stop, Indoor Friends is the kind of emo-punk-power rock band that you simply can’t stop loving. Their latest EP sees melodies taking shape in a frizzy haze where rhythms spiritedly take you for a drive among neighboring genres. Exhilarating, atmospheric, and captivating, Is It All Melting? is a pop rock heaven for your ears.

Indoor Friends open in a scenic, stadium-filling distortion with deliciously hard-hitting beats. Their anthemic melodies tune in you in, and their warm-timbered palette of sonics give you a heartfelt embrace. Eclectic, youthful, and liberating. Spiritually, they remind you of Paramore. Their music sparks the disobedient punk aesthetic while tuned to perfection.

If one thing that the album opener, “Don’t Come Back” tells us about Indoor Friends, is that they are really good at projecting what the listeners would desire the most at varies of points during the progression. They always over deliver. Listening to their music is such a satisfying experience. Finally, a band that gets what your heart desire. But then, there’s always a sprinkle of sparks briefly flashing through the soundscape like a shooting star that opens your eyes to new possibilities. Though brief, that moment of awe is priceless.

One thing that’s really special about Indoor Friends is that there’s always a surprise in their songs. In “Don’t Come Back” is trouble-seeking punk rhythm that pours a whole barrel of gasoline on top of the already lit room temperature. In “I Hate it Here” is the coastal finger-picked guitarscape that differentiates itself from energetic drones. From “Are You Sorry Yet?,” Indoor Friends slightly shift their direction with a more independent, heartfelt sound.

“Are You Sorry Yet?” introduce listeners with their warm buzz of suburban landscape. The song is mellower and more emotive and intimate. The record’s high-energy opening might have overshadowed their wonderfully atmospheric soundscape a bit, but here in the third tune, it shines all so brightly. The subtle dissonance gives out a different feel, pulling your heartstrings.

“Finally Enough” is an cathartic emo rock banger, opening the conversation about self worth. It queries about a relationship that makes one feel not enough while a reverberant moody solo hits you hard with its expressiveness and emotional richness. “Life is Suffering” draws back to the band’s exhilarating pop punk energy, but not without a dark twist. The track surprises you with a sinister bass and tough riff in contrasting allure.