This is very exciting.
― technopolis, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 06:36 (four years ago) link
holy shit!!!
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 07:33 (four years ago) link
Very excited.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 10:49 (four years ago) link
!!!!!
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link
I go back to the Fear Of Men album from a few years ago that he produced, a lot
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 10:53 (four years ago) link
One of the new tracks is contained in this
https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/arcane-delights-08th-august-2020/
― djh, Monday, 10 August 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
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 popDownload/CD/LP (limited edition 180g pink vinyl) released by Further Distractions, distributed by SRDTracklisting: 1. It was Like This Once, It Will Be Like This Again2. Ghost Music3. Miserichord4. The Softest Bonds Resist Resistance5. Subordinate6. Hot Warm Cool Cold7. Thin Skin8. Half Past 49. 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.”
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 popDownload/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 Again2. Ghost Music3. Miserichord4. The Softest Bonds Resist Resistance5. Subordinate6. Hot Warm Cool Cold7. Thin Skin8. Half Past 49. 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.”
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
!!!!
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
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
― Defund the indefensible (NickB), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
It's sounding good!
― djh, Friday, 4 September 2020 07:04 (three years ago) link
Does anyone have a link for this, as it's not coming up on a search on bandcamp?
― Extractor Fan (Branwell with an N), Friday, 4 September 2020 08:09 (three years ago) link
https://insides1.bandcamp.com/album/soft-bonds
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Friday, 4 September 2020 08:23 (three years ago) link
Oh, you could hear the whole thing at 0800 but it's just one track now.
― djh, Friday, 4 September 2020 08:31 (three years ago) link
the song streaming there is incredible. hype
― learned lasagna (||||||||), Friday, 4 September 2020 08:33 (three years ago) link
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.
― Extractor Fan (Branwell with an N), Friday, 4 September 2020 08:36 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps2EJl19vQ
― learned lasagna (||||||||), Friday, 4 September 2020 08:56 (three years ago) link
well look what the postman has just delivered
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
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.
― technopolis, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
sounds tremendous on first listen, think i'm going to be v. good friends with this record
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 14:24 (three years ago) link
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
― technopolis, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
I got mine yesterday and I really like it
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
jealous af
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
cant believe how late ive been to this but i discovered them last year & am obsessed ... good timing
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link
absolutely dreamy record, full of great moments, not one weak track on it
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link
Yeah thanks to the revive I listened to this for the first time and I’m in love.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
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.
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 00:36 (three years ago) link
They are doing a paid live show online next Friday. Details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/403800307608131
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 06:42 (three years ago) link
oh nice!
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 09:19 (three years ago) link
glad to hear of people discovering this record now! I could see it being a good moment to hear it for the first time
― rob, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
Speaking of first times -- shout out to boy_slayer -- I'm listening to Earwig for the first time (not sure how I missed them as thanks to a girlfriend's cool older sister I've been listening to Euphoria since 1995) and it's great.
btw anyone on this thread who hasn't checked out CS + Kreme would likely benefit: CS + Kreme - Snoopy
― rob, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
Livestream show this Friday!
https://www.meltingvinyl.co.uk/event/insides-live-stream-from-st-georges-church/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 January 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
Oh I see Chewshabadoo posted that! Well, to say again!
It bears repeating!
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 11 January 2021 11:30 (three years ago) link
Is "Really good but not as good as Euphoria" a fair assessment?
I know that sounds a bit grouchy of me.
― djh, Monday, 11 January 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
I mean, Euphoria is comfortably all-time-top-10, so I think it's reasonable to acknowledge that it isn't better than that. But it's still completely wonderful that this exists and it as great as it is
― technopolis, Monday, 11 January 2021 19:02 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnJcKS5Tt1I
― marg bar āmrikā (||||||||), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
^ Wow. Thanks for posting.
― djh, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 00:28 (three years ago) link
Livestream happening now. What a lovely performance.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 January 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
Also watching it live!
― hamicle, Friday, 15 January 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
Yes indeed!
― kieth chagrin (NickB), Friday, 15 January 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
Well that was really lovely. All these years and I've finally seen them live -- in a way, at least!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 January 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
yeah it was great. sad lols about the emf anecdote!
― kieth chagrin (NickB), Friday, 15 January 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
Ha, I had to briefly step away at one song break so I must have missed it. What was the gist?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 January 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
kirsty said that they were used to playing empty venues. apparently they once played a show at the Univerity of London Union and only one person came to see them, and that was the guy from EMF
― kieth chagrin (NickB), Saturday, 16 January 2021 00:39 (three years ago) link
don't know if she was joking, but it sounded a bit too random to not be true!
I thought Earwig had got decent reviews at the time they were around so somewhat surprised to hear that. I think I picked up Euphoria after the fact so assume I had seen good reviews of it. Thinking it must have been a cheap cd shop in Dublin in the late 90s. Thought it got some recognition at the time.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 16 January 2021 01:40 (three years ago) link
I don't remember the shows being *completely* empty the few times I saw Earwig, although they were in little places like the Camden Falcon. Not saying anecdote is... unbelievable.
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 16 January 2021 01:53 (three years ago) link
I just.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 January 2021 01:54 (three years ago) link
Lol, Nick, you missed the punchline on the joke. After Kirtsy said that the only person who saw one of their shows was the guy from EMF, there was a brief pause before the follow on…
…drumroll…
“Unbelievable.”
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 16 January 2021 09:07 (three years ago) link
but i wanted to believe!
― kieth chagrin (NickB), Saturday, 16 January 2021 09:34 (three years ago) link