insides - euphoria

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.”

!!!!

Oh nice! Have spent many hours dithering about on that part of the South Downs, so that bit of the blurb adds an extra little bit of interest for me

It's sounding good!

Does anyone have a link for this, as it's not coming up on a search on bandcamp?

https://insides1.bandcamp.com/album/soft-bonds

Oh, you could hear the whole thing at 0800 but it's just one track now.

the song streaming there is incredible. hype

Ah, cheers! That does sound incredible.

As soon as the half-whispered vocals kicked in, I started smashing that pre-order button so hard!

Properly excited about this now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps2EJl19vQ

well look what the postman has just delivered

When I pre-ordered the vinyl in September, I was able to download the entire album from their bandcamp at the same time - pretty sure this was an unintentional glitch as it disappeared from there shortly after. It is completely great though.

sounds tremendous on first listen, think i'm going to be v. good friends with this record

It's so languid and resigned and because it's: a new Insides record!, that sounds like Insides!, it's consequently totally thrilling and comforting and not-comforting. Obv not a 'joyous' record but it is a joyous listen

I got mine yesterday and I really like it

jealous af

cant believe how late ive been to this but i discovered them last year & am obsessed ... good timing

absolutely dreamy record, full of great moments, not one weak track on it

Yeah thanks to the revive I listened to this for the first time and I’m in love.

why would they not release the digital to people who preordered on Bandcamp? I did it on a BC Friday and they don’t have to send me any physical product, I could argue that paying for the digital is more purely supportive, but no download available.

They are doing a paid live show online next Friday. Details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/403800307608131

oh nice!