In Angles is a dope Math Rock/Post Hardcore band from New Jersey. I had the pleasure of touring alongside them back in 2019 when I drummed for Things Amazing & loved watching them every night. I'd never heard them before that tour but was instantly wowed by their performances. To be honest though, I didn't really keep listening to them much after that tour for whatever reason. A couple years later, however, they put out their most recent full length "Cardinal". I started jamming it hard mid-late last year alongside their EP "Shortfalls" which this song is from. I think I like Cardinal as a whole more than that EP, but Magnolia might just be my all time fave In Angles track. I was listening to them so often that I decided to learn this song & record a cover just for fun. Filmed this a couple months ago & just now got the final edit wrapped up.

One thing I love about the band is how memorable their riffs & vocal parts are while still having very choppy rhythmic moments & time signature changes. That's especially apparent with Magnolia. Another thing I love is how mathy they are while still having maybe a sliiiiight metalcore influence. For certain moments, instrumentally, they remind me of a mathier, much less heavy version of Counterparts lol. Another cool thing about them meshing math rock and metalcore type grooves/breakdowns is that I always felt like Satyr was doing something close to that too. Satyr only did one show with In Angles but I always thought it was cool how both bands were doing slightly similar things conceptually, although still pretty different sonically.

As usual, I tried my best to play this song as close as possible to the original recording. Shoutout to Joe Scala for writing sick drum parts & for being down to hit up Adam Cichocki, engineer of Shortfalls, to hook me up with a drumless version of this track. Adam actually mastered the Things Amazing split that came out a couple years ago & we've briefly chatted online before so I appreciate him being down to export a drumless bounce for me. Shoutout to both those fellas!

I don't use samples or really edit anything in my videos other than sometimes comping between a few takes. That's the case for this vid as well. It's all one take up until the 1:34 mark where it switches to a different one until the end of the song. I just liked my playing a little better for that section of the other take. Only mentioning it because my Gopro started having frame rate issues during that second take & because of this, the final bit of the vid is just my right side camera angle. Other than switching to a different take, there's zero editing or sample augmentation.

Ended up mixing my toms a bit different this time around too & am real stoked on 'em! Just tryna smack real hard & mix things as well as I can afterwards. Gettin' better with time I think.

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Cymbals:
15" Byzance Traditional Medium Hi-hats
18" Byzance Traditional Medium Crash
10" Classics Custom Splash (don't think I hit it once in this vid lol)
21" Byzance Traditional Polyphonic Ride
19" Byzance Traditional Medium Thin Crash
18" Thomas Lang Super Stack (don't think I hit this one either)
18" Classics Custom Dual China

Sticks:
Heavy 2B Sticks

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