For fans of that distinctive, formative brand of alternative rock that blew up the generation growing up in the early 00s, Inimical Drive have that style and aesthetic down to lock. The St Louis based rockers have a passion to their performance, an angst and realness that comes through in razor sharp precision throughout each of their works which combines a heaviness with an underlying softness. On the stripped version of “Nothing New”, they deliver one of the most powerful vocal performances, accompanied so majestically with supple acoustic and piano arrangements to elevate the piece into something stratospheric. “I think we’re better off this way” becomes such a powerful hook line on this song, one that you find yourself yelling at the top of your lungs each time you hit repeat on this incisive and invigorating piece of modern contemporary rock music.
Any rock fan will find themselves hitting repeat over and over on this fresh yet classical piece.