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The Inside Out’s New Album Is Another Credit To The Independent Music Community

Late last year, alt-rock outfit The Inside Out released its new album, No Brains No Blood through the independent record label, Black Barrel Records.  The 11-song record is an interesting offering from the band that through its musical and lyrical content alike, continue to show the strength of the independent music community against the major labels. Both elements will be examined shortly.  The record’s production puts the finishing touch to its presentation and will also be examined later.  Each item noted is important in its own way to the whole of this record.  All things considered they make No Brains No Blood a presentation that any indie rock fan will find worth hearing at least once.

No Brains No Blood, the new album from independent alt-rock outfit The Inside Out, is a work that the band’s established audiences and indie rock fans alike will agree continues to give full credence to the independent music community, as with so works from so many of the band’s fellow independent counterparts.  That is proven in part through the record’s featured musical arrangements.  The arrangements offer listeners a certain range of styles and sounds from one to the next.  Right from the record’s outset, listeners get an intense sort of post-rock composition in ‘Separation Anxiety.’  The song clocks in at just under 90 seconds (one minute, 26 seconds to be exact), but in that time, the intensity of the arrangement fully engages audiences with its experimental yet heavy guitar line and decidedly free drumming.  The album’s title track continues the heaviness, but presents a more structured 90s alt-rock approach that is still infectious in its own right.  That 90s alt-rock approach and sound continues in the very next track, ‘Nothing,’ whose bass and guitar lines collectively exhibit a seeming influence from the likes of Smashing Pumpkins at points in its four-minute-plus run time.

‘Blue,’ which effectively serves as part of the album’s midpoint, dramatically changes things up as the band noticeably pulls back here.  In place of the heaviness of the record’s first half, this song is much more subdued and melancholy.  In its own way, even this song throws back to certain sounds of the 90s as it continues to keep things interesting.  As the album continues its progression, the band continues to change things up just as much in its second half, with one of the most notable points coming in ‘It’s All In Your Head, All In The Past.’  The song opens with a wall of sound in its opening bars but then gives way to a more controlled, subdued approach that makes up the majority of the arrangement.  Even in that control, the arrangement still boasts a certain amount of energy that ensures listeners’ continued engagement.

‘Fire!’, the record’s finale changes things up even more, what with the manic energy that makes up so much of its body.  That energy, juxtaposed against the calm that closes the song, makes for so much interest.  It is just as certain to keep listeners engaged and entertained as the other songs noted here and with the rest of the album’s entries.  All things considered, the musical arrangements featured throughout this record clearly give listeners reason enough to hear The Inside Out’s new album.  They are collectively just one part of what makes the album worth hearing.  The lyrical themes that accompany the album’s presentation do their own part to make the album engaging and entertaining.

The lyrical themes that are featured throughout the record really tend to address one central theme just in various different ways.  Case in point is the album’s title track, which finds the song’s subject having that inner struggle to figure out how to become more than himself or herself.  It is a situation that will resonate with everyone.  That theme is expanded a little more later in the record in the form ‘It’s All In Your Head, All In The Past.’  The thing here is that at this point in the record, the subject has come to the realization that all those negative feelings are, as the title states, all in a person’s head and in the past.  It reminds listeners that they need to eventually reach that point where they no longer hold on to the past, but rather look forward.  That central theme of figuring out one’s self is also noted earlier in the record in ‘Separation Anxiety,’ which deals with the equally familiar topic of dealing with toxic people and the impact of dealing with them.  Again, here is a theme of figuring out one’s self that will resonate with plenty of listeners.  Between all of this and everything else that runs through the album, lyrically, it becomes clear that the lyrical content featured in this record will connect with listeners just as much as the musical arrangements that accompany said content.  All of that content considered collectively, the record’s musical and lyrical content proves to offer listeners plenty of reason to give it a chance.

While the content featured in No Brains No Blood clearly does plenty to engage and entertain audiences, it is just part of what makes the record worth hearing.  The production that went into the record brings everything together, completing the album’s presentation.  As noted, there are varied sounds and styles presented throughout the record’s arrangements.  The musical and emotional heaviness comes through so powerfully because of the production.  That is because of the time and attention.  The instruments and vocals are all balanced so well in each song, bringing out so much power in each work, and in turn, ensuring that engagement and entertainment all the more.  The positive general effect that results from the production works with the overall content to make the whole a fully engaging presentation that is worth hearing at least once.

No Brains No Blood, the new album from The Inside Out, is another credit to the validity of the independent music community.  That is proven in part through its varied musical arrangements.  The arrangements provide elements of emo, post-rock and even some slight metalcore to a point.  That variety is sure to engage and entertain listeners in itself.  The lyrical content that accompanies the album’s musical arrangements makes for its own interest because of its accessibility.  The production puts the finishing touch to the presentation.  It ensures a positive general effect that will appeal to listeners just as much as the content itself.  Each item examined here is important in its own way to the whole of the album’s presentation.  All things considered they make No Brains No Blood another positive presentation for any independent music fans.

No Brains No Blood is available now.  More information on the album is available along with all of The Inside Out’s latest news at https://www.facebook.com/TheInsideOutMusic.