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Dec 10, 2024 By Caleb Campbell

Louisiana-based band Inside Voices debuted in 2018 with their full-length album, Consecutive Normal Songs, followed by their 2021 EP, Liminal Space. Their forthcoming sophomore album, If It Matters, iterates further on the band’s introspective and melodic style of emo and alt rock. They teased the record earlier this year with its lead single, “Way Back To Myself,” and today they’re back with another new track, “Grounding,” out everywhere now.

“Grounding” enmeshes the band in a winding haze of intersecting guitar lines interspersed with mathy licks and bursts of chugging distortion. The track’s guitars move with florid ease, ebbing and flowing in a deft dance around the dextrous rhythm section and understated vocal melodies. The resulting track is intricate without feeling messy or overwhelmingly complex, with the band dotting their songwriting with knotted bursts of hooks or satisfying builds of alt rock intensity until the track sprawls outward in its cathartic trumpet-backed final moments.

The band explains of the track, “Lyrically, this song primarily dives into the theme of imposter syndrome. The pressure of feeling like you’re just barely holding it together—without really knowing what you’re doing—can be a heavy burden if you let it linger. It’s all too easy to spiral into worry, fearing you’ll be ‘found out’ for pretending, when in reality, you’re probably doing just fine.”

Check out the song and accompanying video below, out everywhere now.