Outside (CFCF album)

Outside
Studio album by
CFCF
ReleasedOctober 16, 2013
StudioBreakglass Studios in Montreal, Quebec
Joao Carvalho Mastering in Toronto, Ontario
Genre
Length52:06
Label
ProducerCFCF
CFCF chronology
Music for Objects
(2013) 		Outside
(2013) 		Radiance and Submission
(2015)
Singles from Outside
  1. "Jump Out of the Train"
    Released: August 1, 2013
  2. "Beyond Light"
    Released: September 27, 2013

Outside is the second studio album of Canadian electronic musician Michael Silver, known by his stage name as CFCF. Silver began work on a second CFCF LP shortly after the release of his debut album Continent (2009) in order to increase his reputation of being more than just a "house DJ." The record has feelings of being tired and hoping to reach something, which was influenced by Silver's experience in traveling to and from places such as New York, Toronto, and Montreal. He would often look at other landscapes while he was bored during travels and became "immersed" in the fantasies caused by looking at them.

Outside uses several elements of 1980s music by acts such as Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins. Outside was the first album where Silver's vocals served as the foreground of some tracks, and features background vocal contributions from artists such as Stefanie Franciotti, Active Child, and Johan Tuvesson. The album's atmosphere was inspired by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's record The Letting Go (2006), and Outside features a cover of a track from that LP titled "Strange Form of Life."

The songs were arranged in Logic Pro and taken to Breakglass Studios in Montreal in 2012 to be re-recorded. Promoted with two pre-album-release tracks, "Jump Out of the Train" and "Beyond Light" and two music videos for "Beyond Light" and "Strange Form of Life," Outside was distributed by Paper Bag Records and Dummy Records digitally in October 2013 and on vinyl in November 2013. Responses towards Outside from professional reviewers upon release were generally average, some critics having mixed opinions towards how Silver changed his sound and style for the LP as well as his vocal performances. Outsiders, released in May 2014, is a set of four remixes of tracks from Outside as well as two B-sides.

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