insides - euphoria

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).

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

I'm sorry, it's the tender flower in me.

one note, two chords = the piano/keyboard to "relentless." which, had remained my favorite song by the group until only recently...
"relentless" is a fantastic ambient pop song. i wish that it went on for ten full years. that probably sounds like something Bimble would say...

i'm distracted by "distractions" recently.

I can't stop listening to Clear Skin these days. So great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn7vi_k21Tc

Clear Skin is great. So is the promo for it, which is quite different. I think it's readily available to download, if you know where to look. It's three shorter separate pieces, and more beat-oriented. Almost as good as Clear Skin proper.

promo 12" is linked to above:

insides - euphoria

hopefully that mediafire link still works

Julian Tardo: There’s no old stuff I think needs digging out - all the good stuff is on the LPs I think. I've made a ton of half baked ideas that Kirsty has wrinkled her nose at. There is one band I’ve heard that reminds me of Insides: Oen Sujet from Canada.

They're close, though Oen Sujet meanders and switches up tempos progwise (vs straight up minimalism from Insides). Not well represented online, but the EP can be heard on Juno download, there's rehearsal here, and another track here.

Just discovered this band a couple of weeks ago. Euphoria and Clear Skin are such beautiful albums. Feel like I've been looking for music that sounds like this for a while. Glad I've discovered them at this time of year, think I'm going to play them a lot over the summer.

I've have trouble getting into Euphoria, but Clear Skin is all time.

The problem for "Clear Skin" is that "Music for 18 Musicians" exists. I do think its on a par with Glen Velez et al's Musica Esporadica in the Reich-alike sweepstakes.

Have now heard the Earwig album as well. Damn, these guys were seriously talented. Would like to hear their reunion album at some point but feel I'll be disappointed comparing it to these three brilliant albums.

The problem for "Clear Skin" is that "Music for 18 Musicians" exists. I do think its on a par with Glen Velez et al's Musica Esporadica in the Reich-alike sweepstakes.

― Congratulations! And my condolences. (Sanpaku)

I know what you mean, there are similarities but I enjoyed it all the same.

Got Insides - Euphoria a few months ago, I think one of the last two tracks might be my favourite.

If I have any complaint, I think it has too many Cocteau/Guthrie-isms; but loads of great dreampop bands do too, especially when you seek out bands that are similar (but hopefully not too similar to just be poor man's Cocteau Twins).

Insides fans should check out Braids, especially last year's Flourish // Perish. A very similar vibe.

"Skykicking" for sure.

Seriously though, what an album

Have you listened to their second album? It's instrumental but equally beautiful in a very different way. The album they put out under the name Earwig is also really fantastic.

This is such an accomplishment that I would be scared of how a follow-up would only disappoint, but I will investigate.

not sure if you've read the whole thread but this bears repeating anyway: everything(?) earwig did is available on bandcamp as a free download.

http://earwiguk.bandcamp.com/

I didn't realise it was free! How exciting.

Wow, that Earwig record is wonderful!

I find the Earwig album interesting (as well as excellent) - some of it sounds rudimentary compared to Insides while other parts sound even further out? There are bits I could imagine being on a Not Not Fun record today.

I rather dug Earwig at the time. Saw them a few times at places like the Camden Falcon but beyond the EPs and shows knew little about their background before reading Neil Kulkarni's excellent piece. Great that they're still being talked about. Was also at the Brixton show mentioned in the interview; it was a Club Quirky night at the Vox and they played the whole of Clear Skin behind a mesh cube or something.

found a copy of earwig's might ep in a charity shop today. hadn't travelled very far in the last twenty years either - the label's address is only about half a mile from the shop where i found it. great stuff though, sounds like earwig are to insides what late period wolfhounds are to moonshake.

Those 3 EPs are all on Past at the link above

yeah, i will be checking that for sure (thanks koogs!)

i just found this CD for a dollar in the discount bin, it's pretty great

New Tunes:

https://twitter.com/InsidesKandJ/status/748783845575503872

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiNTgXJGEC8

love it, had no idea they were making a new record

It was a cool moment seeing on the back of a Slum of Legs record that they'd recorded it at Insides studio

Not that they sound anything like them of course

Ah, good. I thought Sweet Trip was a misstep, and this more a progression from Euphoria.

There are so many gems on this album, I can't even choose one. I used to think Skykicking was my favorite until Carly Simon kept sneaking into my dreams. It has many interesting changes, but it's mostly the beginning of the outro in the middle of the song (01:52), with those two fading notes that make it lovely. It reminds me a little of St. Etienne. What a record.