Metamorphosis Complete by Infinity Song

Review written by Hollis K.

Infinity Song is a sibling band group based in New York. Comprising of Abraham, Angel, Israel and Momo Boyd, the four siblings create smooth tight harmonizes and blends of their voices within the soft rock genre. Their latest album Metamorphosis Complete was released on June 14th, 2024 a continuation of their EP Metamorphosis. The album comprises the original six songs from their EP and six additional ones. The album focuses on themes of transformation and change. I found myself crying, smiling, and singing through the whole album. It hooked me quickly; ultimately, I felt genuine hope and excitement for life, and with every positive and negative emotion it contained. “I Want You Back” begins a 45-minute emotional journey through this album.

The most notable thing about “I Want You Back” is the accompanying instruments or more noticeably evolving nature of the instruments within the song. When I first listened to this song I was hit with a smooth blend of their four voices. There are no instruments, just them. I was hooked to the sound of their voices even when their instruments started to join back in. The song mainly comprised all of them singing together melding their voices, it made it more obvious when only one of them started to sing emphasizing the lyrics at those moments. As the song continues the focus on their vocals pushes further back until they are just the background and the spotlight of the instruments until the voices fade out completely to a solo of a guitar continuing the same melody of the singers before. The song focuses on missing someone who wasn’t good, but the need to want them outweighs the reality. A line repeated throughout the song shows this is, “I want you back / And a million reasons not to cannot help to change the fact.”

This sentiment continues through the song while much like their overpowering feelings of wanting them back the instrumentals mirror the feelings and take control over the song. That in the end the feeling matters more than the truth of the lyrics. Through many songs, the album takes you on many intense emotions. Sinking boats talking about the end of an era and leaving, “Haters Anthem” focuses on allowing one ego to comfort oneself by hating others’ happy well of lives while “rotting away,” and Slow Burn builds heavy emotions while recognizing the need for resilience and endurance. The album goes through many emotions relating to the change and growth of the human experience until the listener is finally hit with “The Sunshine.”

A song that hits the listener with an uplifting future past all the pain, suffering, and metamorphism of human life. Even from the beginning of the song, it’s a notable difference from the opening from an acoustic guitar rather than their usual electric. The song starts with talking to a younger version of themselves telling themselves that life would be okay, and uses the chorus to emphasize how and why life will be easier. That if they stop fighting it, and start enjoying the long ride, understanding life takes time, and that not everything is there and now. This song is a feel-good ending to oneself an opposition to the want and struggle of wanting and needing another in the beginning. As the song progresses the vocals and the instruments once again start to meld together much like “I Want You Back,” but instead of overtaking the vocals until they are completely gone both parts meld and harmonize together until they become one. I found myself at the end of these 45 minutes smiling. A smile upon my face feeling like they were telling me life gets easier. It was not something I was expecting to feel from a band with multiple intensely emotional songs, but I did, it made me excited for the upcoming day, the future, and my life.