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Details And Drawings

by All Structures Align

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Cable Street 07:20
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Gratitude 08:06

about

If you’re old enough to have been a gig-going adult (ish) in the 1990s you might have been aware of a rich world of underground music orbiting around the Flower Shop label (run by Robin Proper-Sheppard of The God Machine). Flower Shop had the sort of broad “curated” identity that would inspire many of us to start labels years later. Acts as diverse as Sophia, Ligament, Elevate, Swervedriver and 18th Dye called the label home at one point or another. And amongst them all were Nub.

Formed in 1991 around the core of siblings Tim and Adam Ineson, Nub were a peculiar beast. Sonically they were clearly as enthralled by American underground rock of the era as the rest of us but underneath the occasionally aggressive tonality or shifting time signatures and angularity lurked an extremely accessible, dare-I-say-it *pop* heart. They released singles on many labels (including Rough Trade) and it always felt like a question of when they would break through to a wider audience, rather than if. However, like a lot of their contemporaries, they broke up in 1998 without ever releasing a full length album or fulfilling their early promise.
A retrospective compilation of their recordings (including demos for major labels) was finally released in 2007 to long-overdue critical acclaim:

“A group that raged with tenderness, and who, on tracks like the anguished space-rock of Nasa or the compellingly angular riddles of Harrier, happened upon moments of hazily profound perfection which remain potent years on” - Stevie Chick, Mojo

That really should be the end of the Nub story. Pop music rules dictate that you catch groups when they’re hot, or other such clichés. But music and creative endeavours seem to work differently in this century than they did at the end of the last one. Time and immediacy seem less important. Bands come and go and only reach a critical peak years after the members moved onto other things and so it’s not inconceivable that creative relationships can pick up where they left off after decades dormant. And so, as the words “maybe we could write some music again?” buzzed their way down a 200 mile telephone line, a 20 year old elephant sauntered from the room…

All Structures Align sees a reunion of the creative partnership of the Ineson brothers and Details And Drawings is their first recorded output, released on April 15th as a limited edition LP and download on Wrong Speed.

While the (literal) DNA of Nub is present, this is no nostalgic re-tread. All Structures Align feels more patient and suited to these times. Songs unwind at their own pace, unhurried by the need to get to a chorus or stamp their feet screaming ‘look at me’ but yet still containing that knack for a magical, unexpected hook that elevated Nub above their peers so many years before. The album has that same almost-casual, charmingly austere air of the Kadane brothers' (The New Year) and with a welcoming quirkiness that can only come from years of musical understanding.
Recorded and played entirely by the Ineson brothers when time and distance allowed, Details And Drawings has the feeling of something created purely from the joy of reignited collaboration and a re-establishing of a forgotten language. They’re already talking about a follow-up. It’s amazing what 20 years off can do…


'Tension and dissonance haunt this exquisite and carefully balanced music but there's a spectral, delicate and human beauty throughout All Structures Align's songs that gives them so much charm.' Kavus Torabi (The Utopia Strong, Knifeworld, The Holy Family, Gong, Cardiacs)

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released March 4, 2022

Written and Recorded by Adam Ineson and Tim Ineson
Additional drums and vocals by Beth Ineson
Mixed by Adam Ineson
Mastered by Pete Fletcher at Black Bay Studio
Design by David Hand

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Sounds and stories from the Ineson brothers, Neil Turpin, Andrew Pollard and Oli Heffernan.

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