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Inside Out is the fourth album by the American arena rock band Idle Cure, released on Frontline Records in 1991. The album was recorded by Dave Jahnsen and Bill Baumgart at The Mixing Lab in Garden Grove, California; with Baumgart producing for Asylomar. Mixed by Jahnsen at Mixing Lab A and at Front Page Studios in Glendale, California.
Featuring vocals by Steve Shannon backed by Pete Lomakin on keyboards and vocals (with additional keyboards provided by Tim Heintz), Mark Ambrose on guitar and vocals (with additional guitar provided by Glenn Pearce), and Clark Edmond on drums. Additional vocals provided by Bob Carlisle of Allies fame.
‘Inside Out’ is the latest and most creative release from Christian music’s premier studio rock band, Idle Cure. Currently consisting of Steve Shannon (vocalist), Mark Ambrose (guitars), Pete Lomakin (keys), and Clark Edmond (drums), Idle Cure is a band that is proving itself through great songwriting. Over the course of three albums, Idle Cure has constructed songs based largely on the big but generic guitar and keyboard sounds found in the popular commercial hard rock bands of the day. It’s worked for them in the past, and with ‘Inside Out’ they hope it will work for them again.
This time around however, Idle Cure seems to have given up the attempts to write hard rock/metal songs, and focused more on pop/hard rock style ballads. With tender yet convicting songs like «Who Cries For Me» (about the abortion issue) and the call to worship cut «Holy Mountain», these guys have proven that their ballad forumla is finally in sync. When Idle Cure does send it into overdrive, its sound is much more convincing than on previous rockers. Cuts like «Redline», «We’ve Lost Ground» and «Tear Down the Walls» definitely convey a sense of labored uniqueness that the harder songs on the band’s last two projects have sorely missed.
Overall, ‘Inside Out’ is one step closer to that great, gutsy, heart-felt album Idle Cure has hinted at. Let’s hope that this is the project that allowed them to purge that final bit of systematic songwriting technique. At the least it’s the best work to date. [Ross Cluver, CCM, January 1992]
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CD tracklist:
01. We’ve Lost Ground – 4:03
02. Who Cries For Me – 4:13
03. Holy Mountain – 4:25
04. Mind Games – 3:51
05. Redline – 4:17
06. Innocent Again – 4:43
07. I Will Hold On – 3:47
08. Where Is The Love – 3:39
09. The Higher We Climb – 4:01
10. Tear Down The Walls – 3:18
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Frontline Records. Remastered and re-issued on CD by Girder Records in 2019, under license from Frontline Records, as a part of the label’s Legends of Rock Series. (Packaged in a jewel case with 6 panel fold-out featuring lyrics and photos.) Also released as a 180g 12-inch vinyl LP by Girder Records/Limited Run Vinyl, remastered for vinyl and pressed on random color vinyl housed in a black poly-lined sleeve. 100 Unit Pressing.
Inside Out, Girder Records/Limited Run Vinyl 2019, pressed on Colored Vinyl
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