Inner Tongue will release his debut album Favours on Mount Silver Records / Caroline International on Friday 25th May 2018.
In 2013 Inner Tongue was diagnosed with a rare vocal-cord disorder. Following surgery, he was unable to talk for a while but in the months afterwards he began composing again. With singing out of the question, Inner Tongue focused on melody instead:
“I decided to modify my musical focus temporarily by writing songs which could produce a melodic tension without vocals, but which featured the traits of forward-looking pop music. It was as if someone had pressed a reset button on the musical identity I had of myself.”
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The set’s lead single is Teeth, which is described as ‘an eccentric pop ballad with a clear precedence of emotions over structures’.
Talking about the track Inner Tongue said, “Have you ever had a brief moment of clarity that lets you see things from a different perspective? When that vision has slipped away, all that’s left is a feeling. I was chasing to reproduce one such feeling with this.”
The animated video for Teeth was created by Vienna-based designer/director Patrick Sturm and is showing a “Nichts fĆ¼r niemanden” (nothing for nobody) award deconstructing itself over the course of the song.
Talking about the inspiration for the video Sturm says, “My mentor Joerg Schlick (MoMA, musĆ©e d’art moderne et contemporain), who passed in 2005, was part of the Lord Jim Loge collective. I wanted to honour his work by incorporating my own take on their mantra ‘Keiner hilft keinem'” (nobody helps nobody).ā