Soft Bonds
Sublime first new recordings in 20 years by 4AD’s original dream-pop experimenters J. Tardo and Kirsty Yates as Insides - RIYL Nouvelle Vague, To Rococo Rot, Slowdive
Formerly known as Earwig between ’89-’93, before forming Insides with a now sought-after album and singles for 4AD shortly thereafter, Tardo and Yates also issued one album of Nouvelle Vague-like gallic pop and acid jazz with 2000’s ‘Sweet Tip’ and promptly exited stage left until only recently. They now return to something closer to their original style on ‘Soft Bonds’, reprising a tenderly bleary and endearing sound warmly defined by Kirsty Yates’ breathy, languorous vocals and subtle, supple, carefully minimalist production by J. Tardo that’s prone to exquisite surprises.
The shrugging title of ‘It Was Like This Once, It Will Be Like This Again’ acknowledges a timelessness to their sound that oozes thru on their woozy opener, while they sweetly embrace a sort of Berlin-esque electro-pop minimalism realign To Rococo Rot in ‘Ghost Music’, setting parameters they come to explore in variegated strains of icily puckered synth-pop on ‘Misericord’, and the tip-of-tongue sensuality to ‘The Softest Bonds resist Resistance’ in the album’s first half. At the album’s core they make room for the chamber-like hush of ‘Subordinate’ setting more tender, semi-acoustic aesthetics that blossom into something like a drowsy, wilting Antenna on ‘Half Past 4’, and it all comes together in a a mix of the lovely glow of ‘Undressing.’
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Gatefold, pink vinyl LP limited to 500 copies. Written and Produced by Kirsty Yates and Julian Tardo Mastered by Heba Kadry
Sublime first new recordings in 20 years by 4AD’s original dream-pop experimenters J. Tardo and Kirsty Yates as Insides - RIYL Nouvelle Vague, To Rococo Rot, Slowdive
Formerly known as Earwig between ’89-’93, before forming Insides with a now sought-after album and singles for 4AD shortly thereafter, Tardo and Yates also issued one album of Nouvelle Vague-like gallic pop and acid jazz with 2000’s ‘Sweet Tip’ and promptly exited stage left until only recently. They now return to something closer to their original style on ‘Soft Bonds’, reprising a tenderly bleary and endearing sound warmly defined by Kirsty Yates’ breathy, languorous vocals and subtle, supple, carefully minimalist production by J. Tardo that’s prone to exquisite surprises.
The shrugging title of ‘It Was Like This Once, It Will Be Like This Again’ acknowledges a timelessness to their sound that oozes thru on their woozy opener, while they sweetly embrace a sort of Berlin-esque electro-pop minimalism realign To Rococo Rot in ‘Ghost Music’, setting parameters they come to explore in variegated strains of icily puckered synth-pop on ‘Misericord’, and the tip-of-tongue sensuality to ‘The Softest Bonds resist Resistance’ in the album’s first half. At the album’s core they make room for the chamber-like hush of ‘Subordinate’ setting more tender, semi-acoustic aesthetics that blossom into something like a drowsy, wilting Antenna on ‘Half Past 4’, and it all comes together in a a mix of the lovely glow of ‘Undressing.’
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Sublime first new recordings in 20 years by 4AD’s original dream-pop experimenters J. Tardo and Kirsty Yates as Insides - RIYL Nouvelle Vague, To Rococo Rot, Slowdive
Formerly known as Earwig between ’89-’93, before forming Insides with a now sought-after album and singles for 4AD shortly thereafter, Tardo and Yates also issued one album of Nouvelle Vague-like gallic pop and acid jazz with 2000’s ‘Sweet Tip’ and promptly exited stage left until only recently. They now return to something closer to their original style on ‘Soft Bonds’, reprising a tenderly bleary and endearing sound warmly defined by Kirsty Yates’ breathy, languorous vocals and subtle, supple, carefully minimalist production by J. Tardo that’s prone to exquisite surprises.
The shrugging title of ‘It Was Like This Once, It Will Be Like This Again’ acknowledges a timelessness to their sound that oozes thru on their woozy opener, while they sweetly embrace a sort of Berlin-esque electro-pop minimalism realign To Rococo Rot in ‘Ghost Music’, setting parameters they come to explore in variegated strains of icily puckered synth-pop on ‘Misericord’, and the tip-of-tongue sensuality to ‘The Softest Bonds resist Resistance’ in the album’s first half. At the album’s core they make room for the chamber-like hush of ‘Subordinate’ setting more tender, semi-acoustic aesthetics that blossom into something like a drowsy, wilting Antenna on ‘Half Past 4’, and it all comes together in a a mix of the lovely glow of ‘Undressing.’