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Track List
01) The Wider Sun
02) Vessel
03) Insides
04) Wire
05) Colour Eye
06) Light Through the Veins
07) The Low Places
08) Small Memory
09) A Drifting Up
10) Autumn Hill
11) Small Memory (Tunng remix)
01) The Wider Sun
02) Vessel
03) Insides
04) Wire
05) Colour Eye
06) Light Through the Veins
07) The Low Places
08) Small Memory
09) A Drifting Up
10) Autumn Hill
11) Small Memory (Tunng remix)
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Insides is the third studio album by English musician and producer Jon Hopkins. Released on 5 May 2009, it reached No. 15 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Album Chart in 2009. PopMatters listed the album as one of the top ten electronic albums of 2009.
Overview
Production
Hopkins's third album, Insides, was released by Domino Records on 5 May 2009. Musicians Lisa Lindley-Jones, Leo Abrahams, Emma Smith, Davide Rossi, and Vince Sipprell contributed to the studio recordings. Insides included the track "Light Through the Veins," which had previously been used on the Coldplay album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. Some of the tracks had been written by Hopkins sporadically since his last release, while others were based on the music he had composed for the Entity production commissioned by choreographer Wayne McGregor in 2008.
Reception
Insides charted at No. 15 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart. PopMatters listed the album as one of the top ten electronic albums of 2009.
Reviews
The album received positive reviews from sources such as PopMatters, Allmusic, and the BBC. Paul Clarke of the BBC wrote that "Hopkins capable of producing music as epic, soaring and emotional as any power ballad in his own way though. Take "Light Through The Veins" for example...a close relative of Ulrich Schnauss' "In All The Wrong Places", it's a majestic piece of widescreen shoegazing which grows ever more expansive throughout its entire ten-minute duration...no amount of reflected glory could ever fully illuminate Insides' mysterious depths."
According to other reviews, the album "takes its cues from ambient electronica, but uses strings and piano, along with some very tasty beats and dubstep-influenced bass on some tracks." Alan Ranta of Tiny Mix Tapes stated the album "strikes me as his single most aggressive release yet. His sense of timing, the clarity of his production, and the variety of effects he employs draw you into the story that each instrumental tells. Jon Hopkins is not a button-pushing man of presets; he is a bona fide composer and a trained pianist. Craftsmanship sets him apart, and allows Insides to be as incredibly moving as it is and always will be."
User Album Review
Jon Hopkins has frequently trafficked in what might be pejoratively called “commercial ambient”. His latest, Insides even contains moments that might be called “pop IDM”. It sounds crass, but these are not condemnations in and of itself. Hopkins has been a classically trained pianist since he was a young child and, as such, he knows his way around an affecting melody. Insides is a release that is far more beat-focused than his previous work, and much broader in scope. In the context of the man’s discography, it seems like a leftfield lightning bolt of enlightenment. Appropriately then, the ethereal harmonies and twinkling pianos that gradually fade into the gorgeously immaculate and crisp bass-dropping behemoth “Vessel” seem.
Many will be brought to the album via the album’s centerpiece “Light Through the Veins”, known better as the source melody that imagined Coldplay as Ulrich Schnauss on the former band’s “Life in Technicolor”, “Life in Technicolor II”, and Viva La Vida hidden track “The Escapist”. Perhaps the nine-minute track was not good enough to warrant three Coldplay interpolations, but its neon-pasture dash through warm new wave synth fields certainly surpasses all three of those tracks combined in emotional depth and resonance. At the polar opposite of that glee is the title song “Insides”, which features a Halloween-style wind-up horror loop gutted by gnashing, gnarling percussion that implodes at the halfway point into decimating, Richter-scale defying sub-bass. “Small Memory”, as brief as its title suggests, is equal parts Jon Brion, Squarepusher’s “Tommib”, and some of the more quiescent parts of Aphex Twin’s Drukqs, a sweet and concise moment of wonder and reflection. The album succeeds in meting out these many moods in a way that’s consistently listenable, for both those who use might use Coldplay as an entry point and the cynical veterans of a consistently dynamic electronic music scene. Insides is among 2009’s very best.
SOURCE: https://www.popmatters.com/94356-jon-hopkins-insides-2496030862.html
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Insides is the third studio album by English musician and producer Jon Hopkins. Released on 5 May 2009, it reached No. 15 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Album Chart in 2009. PopMatters listed the album as one of the top ten electronic albums of 2009.
Overview
Production
Hopkins's third album, Insides, was released by Domino Records on 5 May 2009. Musicians Lisa Lindley-Jones, Leo Abrahams, Emma Smith, Davide Rossi, and Vince Sipprell contributed to the studio recordings. Insides included the track "Light Through the Veins," which had previously been used on the Coldplay album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. Some of the tracks had been written by Hopkins sporadically since his last release, while others were based on the music he had composed for the Entity production commissioned by choreographer Wayne McGregor in 2008.
Reception
Insides charted at No. 15 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart. PopMatters listed the album as one of the top ten electronic albums of 2009.
Reviews
The album received positive reviews from sources such as PopMatters, Allmusic, and the BBC. Paul Clarke of the BBC wrote that "Hopkins capable of producing music as epic, soaring and emotional as any power ballad in his own way though. Take "Light Through The Veins" for example...a close relative of Ulrich Schnauss' "In All The Wrong Places", it's a majestic piece of widescreen shoegazing which grows ever more expansive throughout its entire ten-minute duration...no amount of reflected glory could ever fully illuminate Insides' mysterious depths."
According to other reviews, the album "takes its cues from ambient electronica, but uses strings and piano, along with some very tasty beats and dubstep-influenced bass on some tracks." Alan Ranta of Tiny Mix Tapes stated the album "strikes me as his single most aggressive release yet. His sense of timing, the clarity of his production, and the variety of effects he employs draw you into the story that each instrumental tells. Jon Hopkins is not a button-pushing man of presets; he is a bona fide composer and a trained pianist. Craftsmanship sets him apart, and allows Insides to be as incredibly moving as it is and always will be."
User Album Review
Jon Hopkins has frequently trafficked in what might be pejoratively called “commercial ambient”. His latest, Insides even contains moments that might be called “pop IDM”. It sounds crass, but these are not condemnations in and of itself. Hopkins has been a classically trained pianist since he was a young child and, as such, he knows his way around an affecting melody. Insides is a release that is far more beat-focused than his previous work, and much broader in scope. In the context of the man’s discography, it seems like a leftfield lightning bolt of enlightenment. Appropriately then, the ethereal harmonies and twinkling pianos that gradually fade into the gorgeously immaculate and crisp bass-dropping behemoth “Vessel” seem.
Many will be brought to the album via the album’s centerpiece “Light Through the Veins”, known better as the source melody that imagined Coldplay as Ulrich Schnauss on the former band’s “Life in Technicolor”, “Life in Technicolor II”, and Viva La Vida hidden track “The Escapist”. Perhaps the nine-minute track was not good enough to warrant three Coldplay interpolations, but its neon-pasture dash through warm new wave synth fields certainly surpasses all three of those tracks combined in emotional depth and resonance. At the polar opposite of that glee is the title song “Insides”, which features a Halloween-style wind-up horror loop gutted by gnashing, gnarling percussion that implodes at the halfway point into decimating, Richter-scale defying sub-bass. “Small Memory”, as brief as its title suggests, is equal parts Jon Brion, Squarepusher’s “Tommib”, and some of the more quiescent parts of Aphex Twin’s Drukqs, a sweet and concise moment of wonder and reflection. The album succeeds in meting out these many moods in a way that’s consistently listenable, for both those who use might use Coldplay as an entry point and the cynical veterans of a consistently dynamic electronic music scene. Insides is among 2009’s very best.
SOURCE: https://www.popmatters.com/94356-jon-hopkins-insides-2496030862.html
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