Innerpartysystem

Island Records

Chelsea Robinson / Guest Writer / The USD Vista

What do you get when you give steroids to the members of the Postal Service? Innerpartysystem, of course! The Reading, a Pennsylvania-based quartet brings the electronic music to the edge with their insane synths, scratchy beats and a techno bass that playfully lingers on the drawn-out lyrics. Their admiration of Daft Punk inspired their efforts.

After touring in North America, Britain and Europe the past year, the band dropped their self-titled debut album on Sept. 30. After receiving much airtime on FUSE and a myriad of alternative Top 40 radio stations, their single, “Don’t Stop,” instantly generated a broad fanbase. They wrote the song as a mockery of the current celebrity fascination phenomenon. Other messages include references to the corruption of the Chinese government. The single can also be heard on EA’s “FIFA Street 3” and “Madden NFL 09 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition.”

Currently, the band is preparing for the video release of “Don’t Stop.” They plan to tour in the spring and hit the South by Southwest Music festival in Austin, Texas this summer. Innerpartysystem will take a gig anywhere, emphasizing that they are about the “huge party…it takes the spotlight off [them], and puts it on the music, where it belongs,” according to their lalbe, Island Records. In other words, they attempt to combine dance party anthems with alternative rock music to create deliciously infectious beats.

At the heart of the album, Innerpartysystem delivers music that when turned up loud enough, will make listeners dance like crazy. Fans of Nine Inch Nails or the Killers will be fans of Innerpartysystem. In fact, the band enlisted Nine Inch Nails producer, Alan Moulder, as the brainchild of their funky debut. With the goal of partygoers achieving that blissful dance party status, Innerpartysystem is burgeoning on its peak of success.