insides - euphoria

there was also an insides promo 12" with clear skin remixes on it

! Now that I'd love to hear.

Actually somehow I had missed that the original release of Euphoria had a separate 7" single as well.

> Now that I'd love to hear.

if only someone had, say, posted it on an mp3 blog (and on my birthday too)

http://theblackenedair.blogspot.com/2009/10/insides-clear-skin-promo.html

Astounding.

And thanks!

Wow thanks Koogs!

I still have never heard the Earwig album or Clear Skin itself, appallingly.

Good lord, man.

Ha I know - it actually feels vaguely shameful considering how important Euphoria has been to me for so long.

Me on Under My Skin from ten years back:

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/old-ft/essays/1999/02/earwig/

Ned I've been imagining the record ever since I read your review ten years ago! That was the first I'd heard of it - I think i actually picked up Euphoria that year due to all the cross-references with Disco Inferno, Bark Psychosis etc.

cross-references on a.m.a. I mean.

Something really needs to be done about this! And that sounds like something that would be cross-referenced on a.m.a. that way...

tim i have clear skin, if i can track down the cd in my many boxes i will set it aside for you

Thanks Jim! No pressure though, I know what scouring through boxes of CDs is like...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_QYRtOGRVU

so sick

i hate lovers
i hate the way they go to the bathroom
in shifts
after
they fuck

Possibly my favorite song by them, definitely my favorite lyric.

huh.

http://www.animalsonwheels.co.uk/index.php/2010/08/16/a-new-old-tune/#content

Good find!

thanks!

pretty good track. very 90s idm. which, um, makes sense.

only 3 votes in the original poll makes me sad, but I guess this album is kind of the definition of a hidden gem--as much as I love it, I wouldn't play it for just anyone.

i played "Relentless" once extremely late at a house party a while ago, like Sunday afternoon late, about 6 or 7 people in the room just dancing and chatting and drinking, it went down well I think though admittedly I just wanted to hear it myself

this album means so much to me but I still haven't heard Clear Skin

I just got into this in the last two years. Prefer Clear Skin to Euphoria. Got the canadian? cd ep off Amazon or Discogs recently for a buck or two. Reminds me of Reich in places.

It seems I have the mp3s for the Clear Skin promo too. They also had a track on one of the Volume comps.

Never understood the hoopla for this album - always seemed like a more boring Laika

Hurrah Neil Kulkarni once more:

http://thequietus.com/articles/07267-the-euphoria-of-insides

Some full-throated poptimism there at the start too!

Not much of a Mogwai fan I take it?

Those American bands I did care about that got called ‘post-rock’ always had too much of an obsession with melody and rhythm going on to ever be called anything other than pop (Bowery Electric, Jessamine, Labradford, Windy & Carl)

Uh...

I should tell Windy and Carl about that, actually...

Coincidentally, I was humming a Labradford song only yesterday.

I think it was the one that started on middle C. And stayed there for the next five minutes.

Missed the Kulkarni feature at the time but just caught up, I hadn't realised They had another band before Insides. The music seems to be legally available here:

http://earwiguk.bandcamp.com/

I Need Feel is an amazing track.

Hey, that's great! Must get the missing numbers...

I would like to make a donation, as everything I've ever bought by these guys has been second-hand, but I guess legally these things can be difficult.

That "Past" album was the first thing I got by these guys. (Yeah, it was second-hand too.) It was great to follow their progress from that to "Under My Skin..." to "Euphoria" to "Clear Skin." There were a few other artists back then, like Robert Hampson, whose music just seemed to gradually dissolve into the ether with each release. I always wondered where they would wind up.

I would like to make a donation, as everything I've ever bought by these guys has been second-hand, but I guess legally these things can be difficult.

The rights must've reverted to them if they're allowing free downloads on bandcamp. In which case, it's unfortunate that they didn't use the "name your price" feature to allow for donations. In any case, the flac files are much appreciated. Those are rare discs these days.

tim i have clear skin, if i can track down the cd in my many boxes i will set it aside for you

― an error has occurred (electricsound), Tuesday, December 8, 2009 9:47 AM (2 years ago)

i found this if you would still like it tim!!

This record is excruciatingly beautiful. Like huddling under heavy blankets, sweating, turned on, listening to someone tell you their darkest thoughts. It makes me sad that so few answered this poll or responded to this thread, but it makes sense. It's just such a private record, almost embarassingly so

This, from way up thread, is so accurate for this music. I've just had someone turn me onto this band and I'm like... how, with all my love of ARKane, DI, Butterfly Child etc etc did I miss these guys?

This is excellent, and painful, and honest.

Glad you've discovered them Trayce.

Yeah someone I know from lastfm chats recommended them to me recently. The clash of sweet music v the painfully honest, ugly lyrics is just awesome, much like DI I suppose!

Why did I never contribute to this thread? I bought "Euphoria" in late 93 on the basis of the glowing MM review, and I loved it then, as I love it now. (There was a classic letters page around this time when someone had complained about MM having pictures of "girls with their insides hanging out" so they printed a pic of Kirsty Yates with the caption "The girl from Insides, hanging out"). The album I think is unique and I haven't heard anything like it. I worked backwards to Earwig and loved that too, in a slightly underdeveloped way. The lyrics are like a slightly psychotic diary of desire. And "Clearskin" just... is like "In C". The "Tikky" track on Volume was good too, but I never saw the third album ever... But "Euphoria"'s fans are like a tiny cult, small but perfectly formed, a secret code of bonding over such a perfect record. Pointless ramble over.

i lost my virginity to this album last night.

it was... anything but euphoric.

I hate to ask about your bathroom visits in shifts.

lol xp

at least it was stylish. it was like we were in a movie or something. all that made it so dissatisfying was that neither of us knew what the hell we were doing - we even left the lights on.

anyway, i have loved insides for about seven years now. i probably have nothing original to say about them. i guess i kind of hated 'sweet tip' when i first heard it, but came to realize later that it is indeed okay when bands change. i came to love 'sweet tip' with time.

what a fantastic band though (and earwig too). it pleases me that the insides cult has, in recent years, grown by the... tens?

these are my first posts to ilx. forgive me for my self-centered-ness. i just wanted to introduce myself and talk about insides.
it is unseasonably warm in ann arbor, but i could not feel colder inside.

ned, you don't need to hide behind pseudonyms like this.

;-)

I hate to ask about your bathroom visits in shifts.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, November 16, 2012 4:52 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Under my skin I am LOL.

Oh geez, I had to apologize like Hell!

(That's an Earwig reference, though).

Delighted to see both this and Clear Skin now on Bandcamp!

https://insides1.bandcamp.com/album/euphoria-1

https://insides1.bandcamp.com/album/clear-skin

I need to get around to listening to the non-4AD albums.

Yeah you punk. Er wait.

I got promo copies of both the above records at my college radio station 32 years ago, loved them and played tracks off Euphoria on my show (tough to do Clear Skin), and even spent what little student money I had to buy the CD. I just assumed they were a brilliant one off then only just relatively recently discovered they have more records—albeit at a one a decade pace.

Given this thread has been revived, I'm gonna take the opportunity to cross-refer to Sophia Hansen-Knarhoi's Undertow, which ivy put me onto, and which reminds me of Euphoria in its tenderly delivered absolute bleakness - as if an entire aesthetic was spun out of the opening stretch of "Darling Effect.

Oh yeah? Well into my Bandcamp Friday cart that'll go, then!

nice to see that they've embraced Clear Skin as I recall it was something they initially didn't want to release

now if we could get a proper pressing of the Skinned Clean/Further Distractions remixes...

~undressing for doctors is still undressing for strangers~

akm, as I remember it the issue with Clear Skin is that the label put out some remixed/edited versions on 12" without their sing-off. Which is a shame because I think they are pretty good: https://www.discogs.com/release/248365-Insides-Clear-Skin

*sign-off