insides - euphoria

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.

big love for relentless!

I recently sprung for the 12" for Clear Skin. It's one of my favorite Steve Reich rip-offs. Absolutely incredible.

I like the 12, but the CD is better.

https://youtu.be/x4H7FtKsPzw?t=0s

Yeah, I agree with you there. I've had the CD for a while, but there are different tracks on the 12", so I needed that too.

being issued for RSD 2019 with liner notes from Simon Reynolds!

ziggy from stroom played skykicking on NTS a couple of weeks ago, sounded glorious tbh

amazing record

Earwig's complete(?) discography is now on bandcamp btw

still see Kirsty and Julian at gigs in Brighton but 2shy 2say hi

You should! They're lovely. I've done some photo sessions with them over the last few years - not sure if it'll ever be used but it was fun anyway. There has been new music in the works for a while.

"Newly remastered and recut from the original tapes, Euphoria will be available to buy on #RSD19 in the US"

Only in the US? (glum emoji)

xp they played a one-off gig recently too - in paris supporting seefeel iirc

Used to love seeing Earwig live. Then saw them do the whole of Clear Skin at The Vox in Brixton which I thought was excellent although not such a great experience for them apparently, as documented in the big Quietus piece probably linked above.

Julian Tardo mastered the recent Sonny Sharrock 'Ask The Ages' reissue for vinyl which by all acounts sounds ace, to make a thread connection. (I know the label guy is also Brighton based as a mutual friend introduced us briefly last year.)

still see Kirsty and Julian at gigs in Brighton but 2shy 2say hi

― kolarov spring (NickB)

You should! They're lovely.

― Michael Jones

Yeah, I'm sure they wouldn't mind! Julian recorded our album and recorded and mixed the singles, he's really really nice.

yeah i did spot his name on the back of your records :)

he did the Fear Of Men stuff yesteryear that I really loved

Did anyone get the remaster yet?

For anybody in the UK, rest of Europe or anywhere else, we’ll have a bunch to sell via bandcamp when RSD has been put to bed x https://t.co/4p7cGBTvM7

— Insides (@Insides__) April 13, 2019

i did ask about that in resident yesterday and got totally blank-faced

No Insider knowledge in that place.

omg this has gotta be the first rsd thing i've cared about

We got a bunch of those in where I work and we didn't sell a single one on the day. It was hard to watch.

oooh, I bet I can still head over to one of our local record shops this week and snag one of those

None of my local record stores (and there's a bunch here) stocked it. And to think I actually showed up early to make sure I snagged a copy of this hot product.

Up for sale at Norman Records now.

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/175938-insides-euphoria

this record is perfect and i hate to have to choose but it has to be "skin divers".

6 Skin Divers (3:30) 0

lol

Just listenied to it this evening and holy crap it’s brilliant!

Saw on twitter that they've got Brighton and London dates coming up, not sure if any others in the UK...

https://dice.fm/event/n29kq-insides-play-euphoria-plus-special-guests-now-11th-sep-the-social-london-tickets

I really want to go to this but I'm not gonna be able to persuade anyone to come with me from Glasgow to London for it

V tempted to go see them in London on 9th September too but flying all the way to London for it (by myself as no one I know digs them) is a bit mental

Euphoria @ Social last night was completely great; really heavy sound in parts (Skin Divers was colossal), Kirsty on excellent form and clearly delighted to be there.

Smattering of tracks from (alleged) forthcoming album Soft Bonds that they apparently started recording "in 2012" - first of these was really dense and great. Expect album around 2030 maybe.

Sweet Tip seems to have been ruthlessly purged from the Insides canon by band and audience alike, oh well

It was pretty great, eh? Glorious guitar arpeggios.

Liked the motorik blast of that long middle track in support band Now's set too.

Always wondered what had happened to the photos I took in a couple of sessions 2015-16; turns out one is on their artist page on Spotify.

Some good news.

https://mailchi.mp/d56d7843cbea/insides-soft-bonds

Indeed it is! Never thought I'd see the day...

Ah, that is brilliant news. I just listened to Clear Skin the other day.

This is very exciting.

holy shit!!!

Very excited.

!!!!!

I go back to the Fear Of Men album from a few years ago that he produced, a lot

One of the new tracks is contained in this

https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/arcane-delights-08th-august-2020/

Here we go!

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Insides 'Ghost Music'

Release date: available to download on Bandcamp Friday 4 September with advance orders of the new LP ‘Soft Bonds’

'Ghost Music’ is the first track to be aired from ‘Soft Bonds’, Insides’ first album for 20 years.

It was also the first to be finished and came about by scrapping the original structure, leaving only the trace elements. It occupies the negative space that’s left behind, where rhythms are pulses and heartbeats, almost absent or heard from another room, and melodies are memories. It doesn’t look away. The video uses footage of Kirsty and Julian filmed and used in live shows in 1993 and cut with more recent footage from 2016. The past stalks the present.

Insides 'Soft Bonds’
Release date: 6 November 2020, available to order from Bandcamp and record shops from Friday 4 September 2020.
Experimental pop
Download/CD/LP (limited edition 180g pink vinyl) released by Further Distractions, distributed by SRD

Tracklisting:
1. It was Like This Once, It Will Be Like This Again
2. Ghost Music
3. Miserichord
4. The Softest Bonds Resist Resistance
5. Subordinate
6. Hot Warm Cool Cold
7. Thin Skin
8. Half Past 4
9. Undressing

'Soft Bonds' is Insides’ first release for 20 years. It’s the sound of heart-stopping slow motion, blood rushes, fingers digging into bruised flesh, and sleeping with clenched fists.

“We found some things that were recorded a long time ago. We added some things that have been haunting us for for years and recorded some other ideas that we’d just thought of. Recording started at home in 2012, and continued every now and then in our studio, on trains, in the Greek island of Naxos and while wandering around Cissbury Ring, Chanctonbury Ring and Devil’s Dyke in the South Downs. We finally walked away from the recordings in late 2019 and decided to release a small run of CDs and LPs on our own Further Distractions label.

'Soft Bonds' is about the past haunting the present, and gripping onto your crumbling sense of self. It’s informed by the spirit of This Heat/This Is Not This Heat, Patty Waters, Annette Peacock, Eartheater, Mhysa, Arthur Russell, Hailu Mergia, Scott Walker and Arca.”