Label: unsigned

Producer: Dustin Mason

Release Date: Sept 15 2006

I think it's an electrifyingly amazing thing when you hear about people from varying (and often contrasting) backgrounds, skills, and collected visions, coming together via the internet to produce terrific music. What's more amazing is that, in actual fact, it doesn't actually happen that often. Sure you can have Mr and Mr, Miss and Miss, collaborate on something here and there, but to actually convey astonishment to 'all who fall inadvertantly within hearing distance' is really quite something else! The thing is, Cara Young, Luke Carnevale, Bruce Crocker, and Julie Licata did just that when they came together via the cyber-highway and brought their varying backgrounds, skills, and collected visions into sharp focus as pop/rock ensemble 'Inner Frequency'.

The band's first outing in CD format is the six track EP - The Lemmontree Project, produced and engineered by the indisputably clever Dustin Mason. The CD opens with Inner Frequency and with some sweeping acoustic guitar chords, tight meandering drum work, and exponentially dynamic vocals, the song comes to life with a forceful bridging between alternative pop and imaginative rock. It's an upscale abilities song is Inner Frequency... crisp musicanship, talented arrangements and sensibly prevailing production work combine to make this track quite the opener!

Fairy Tale You is an astonishing example of forward thinking songwriting and beyond the horizon production skills. What's really interesting is the way the vocal parts are handled... almost concentrated in the absorbed delivery of the lyrical meaning and whether you know what I'm talking about or not (of course you do!) you'll find Cara's vocals surpassing the excellence mark... an achievement so much more noticable when the volume's set to 11. keep an eye on the drum work though... very very tight and almost completely synchronous beyond what's possible with this kinda tempo!

Backwards comes complete with the kind of acoustic sweeps we saw earier in Inner Frequency but the embelishment really is in the arrangement between both the guitar(s) and the drum work. Then of course... the very very smart vocals used to great effect in perpetuating everything a voice can perpetuate on it's way to those intangible tones and ranges. I love this song for it's cleverness and for it's quite unintentional demand for more right after the last note!

Yeah Yeah gives you the confirmation that this band really have found there very own sound, formula, genotype, class, and believe me... that kind of thing doesn't come easy. I can't really imagine Inner Frequncy's audience being anything but captivated by the aura of excellence the band seems to weave at ya with seeming ease. Oh what a f&*^ing brilliant idea it was for these guys to traverse the net to get all of this together!

Preacher Man, is the one that made me dig my fingertips between the keys on this keyboard looking for an extra set of keys that would give me the added option to hear the entire (forthcoming) album!!! Watch out for the lacework on guitar being chased and caught by the drum bits... just like in Tom and jerry folks... but far more colourful! I like the balanced harmony vocals in their attempt to blanket Cara's rock/pop attitude prizing itself out from between her lips! Preacher Man is a superb track and a thoroughly brilliant proposition toward the completing of the album!

The 'hidden track' or track six is another version of Backwards and this time it's almost as though the band are literally sitting to the right and left of your armchair... that place where all of this comes at ya like the stuff that goes right through you when there's a nearby supernova... what are they called??? hmmmm.... neutrinos???

Look foward to Inner Frequency engaged in dazzlement at a location near you and keep an eye on their site for that rather important addition to the albums of excellence library!

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