In/Out/In
 

should be coming to my mailbox soon. March I think it is. had to order it. new official release, so it is must for me.

Really enjoyed this review. I have to say, I went nuts with this record and ordered both vinyl versions as well as the CD and Cassette. Feels good to get some "new" SY material! I see a silver vinyl version on Discogs - no idea how to obtain that one.

have you heard it yet? I saw all the tracks active on Bandcamp, but waiting for the vinyl to arrive. Might listen to it on the bandcamp though.

I like it a lot. I had heard all of the songs individually already so nothing new but as an album it works really well. It holds up comparatively.

That's right, nothing new... but I love it!! it takes me back in time, enjoying and waiting for new material. A cosmic and sonic trip... I'm guess Im miss them tooooo much...

It was exclusive to the Three Lobed 20th subscription series. Might be some spare copies left if you contact Three Lobed Recordings…

I might have to give that a shot! Thanks.

I still have not heard it. vinyl has not arrived yet, so I am still resisting listen to it online. I might today, while I am driving.

i was skeptical at first given that all of the songs had been released in some form or another and i had set my hopes maybe unattainably high on what this release might consist of... i listened last month after i received my copy and just gave it another listen this afternoon. i think it's pretty good and showcases many avenues the band was exploring in their later years. dig the sequencing...good stuff

As three of its songs ("Machine", "Social Static", and "Basement Contender") overlapped with In/Out/In's tracklist, Rarities 3 has been removed from Bandcamp. Gotta share that bread with Three Lobed now, I imagine. But if you purchased Rarities 3, you still have access to it - it just appears as "private" in your Bandcamp collecsh.

Let me ask you - do you guys seriously like this stuff?

Because I ... I don't. It's just throwaway jams with riffs and harmonics that I'd heard 700 times before ("Basement Contender", "In & Out") or noise jams, although pretty good ones at times ("Social Static")
The only decent track is "Machine".



I guess I'm not a fan enough to appreciate this kind of stuff, but to me it feels just like milking former glory.

funny you should say that because im not a "fan" or a collector or anything, seriously, i just like what i like, regardless of who made it, ans... i like the loose quality of basement contender. it's like someone practicing in their garage or something. basement, i guess, per the title.

and it's exactly the "throwaway" quality of the jam that i like. not because nostalgia or loyalty or worship or personality anything, not because "this person did it", but because for me it evokes a lazy midly hangover sunday mood hahaha. yes it's a bit long and repetitive in the late middle, but overall i like the imperfection.

i also like out & in. yes structurally it's a bit broken in parts but the parts are great to my ears.

Even at the height of my most rabid SY fandom, I found "Social Static" fairly underwhelming. "Basement Contender" is definitely later-day SY by the numbers, with not much exploration to consider. "In & Out" is nice but not essential.

"Machine" is a fun little tune, I discussed it during the first "Song of the Week" feature @ the tab site. "Out & In" is the real gem here - it first caught my ear on the Things Behind The Sun soundtrack and hearing the expanded edition on the Not The Spaces You Know... compilation was a massively unexpected treat. Sure, it devolves into total jam territory, but it's also effortlessly awesome, the Jim version of the band was really hitting their stride around that time.

So yeah - it's a weird collection for sure. There's gotta be tons of unreleased jam stuff, I wish we'd see more of those long-rumored backburnered SYR projects. But anything that gets SY back on people's radars is a cool thing!

"Out & In" is better than anything on SYR 9, which is really good.

[quote=The Soup Nazi]"Out & In" is better than anything on SYR 9, which is really good.[/quote]

Yeeeeeeeeeees. Play it fuckin loud.

Skipped most of it, couldn't be arsed.


I read a Shelley interview where he say's something along the lines of there's not much studio recorded music left in the vault.

Still waiting for that Sister Deluxe edition

Yeah, Steve indicated that there was not a lot excess beyond what is on the album itself and what does exist is mostly different versions of the same song.



And Shelley indicates in that same interview that the Sister Deluxe is still in the pipeline! He also indicated that Washing Machine is the priority/focus right now.

It's weird. In the 90's and early 00's I would have not really cared for this release (or the SYR stuff) at all. Now I find myself quite enjoying the more expansive pieces.

Call me old fashioned, or worse, but why not make these tracks extras on various deluxe rereleases, ie on whatever album they were recorded for/during, so that we can better give context to each piece?

Supposedly they don't have many other studio rarities in the tank so this was a nice way to compile them all into one place. I think it's cool because it got a lot of people to check out a smaller label like Three Lobed (myself included, never heard of them before) and find some other releases as well, like the Body/Dilloway/Head record for instance.