Free Love Inside Vinyl LP 2023 Ltd Dinked Edition #229
Dinked Edition: #229
● “Blood Red Embryo” vinyl *
● Riso-print on 225gsm paper, designed by Sam Tomson (Bakkheia Records) *
● Hand-stamped, signed & numbered edition *
● Private link for a 53 minute mix of music that inspired the album*
● Limited pressing of 400 *
*EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition
Tracklist:
1. Le Mirage
2. Open The Door
3. Fight Or Flight
4. All The Same To Me
5. Dans Le Noir
6. Don’t Stop
7. Stop
8. It’s A Feeling
Written and recorded at the band’s Glasgow home studio during and after the lockdowns of 2020-2021, and completed just before the birth of Lewis and Suzi’s son Echo in the summer of 2022, its 10 tracks of house-quaking acid pop, celestial drones and yogic devotionals are a by-turns banging and blissed-out meditation on life and death, community and seclusion, worlds both outwith and within. A song about “coming back to the centre after spiralling too far and recognising you’re not the only person wondering what’s going on”, ‘Open The Door’ reaches for the fresh silicon sound of Yellow Magic Orchestra. ‘Stop’ and ‘Golden Goose’ channel the space age pop dreams of Broadcast, while ‘Le Mirage’ and ‘Dans Le Noir’ take influence from 1970s electronic dance music pioneer Patrick Cowley – the former his gay porn movie soundtracks, the latter Cowley’s game-changing hi-NRG productions such as ‘Menergy’ and ‘Megatron Man’. Transportational seven-minute album closer ‘I Become’ sees Free Love borrow lyrics from the first track Lewis and Suzi ever recorded together, ‘Crystal Salutation’. “In doing, we become.”
“The sounds and themes on INSIDE came from the experiments we started working on throughout lockdown in our home studio, FULL ASHRAM CELESTIAL GARDEN,” says Lewis. “Sometimes we’d leave a sound running on loop until little melodies would come in and then that would start to take the form of the track. It has been a weird time for anyone to be making anything creative – to make sense of any reason to it all, we had to position creating music as an essential ritualistic part of our daily existence. We used the studio as a portal and made INSIDE.”
*Limited to 1 copy per customer/household, multiple orders will be cancelled without notice.