ARTIST: Collapsing Opposites
TITLE: Inside Chance
LABEL: Local Kids Make Good
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 163kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 44m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-02-27
RIP DATE: 2007-03-18
Track List
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1. Outside Problems 3:05
2. Will 4:02
3. Other Song 3:39
4. Bullies 2:02
5. Teachers And Students 9:11
6. Fight! 2:06
7. What's That Sound? 3:25
8. All Around It 4:13
9. Land Of Opportunity 5:48
10. Duckling 3:19
11. Song For Two 4:04
Release Notes:
Former one-man-band Collapsing Opposites (a.k.a.
VancouverÆs Ryan McCormick, also of They Shoot Horses,
DonÆt They?) has returned with another gift to music
collections everywhere: Inside Chance .
At times biting and fiery, at others contemplative and
reserved, Inside Chance speaks for itself. Perfectly idiosyncratic
and glowing with personality, the album is an exciting
benchmark in the Collapsing Opposites discography. Having
benefited from extensively touring and performing the
albumÆs songs live prior to recording, this is the bandÆs most
developed and complete effort yet.
Recorded between tours over a period of a year-anda-
half, Inside Chance was created primarily by McCormick,
though it features the contributions of guest musicians Anni
Rossi, The Greenbelt Collective, Julia Feyrer (from They
Shoot Horses) and the new Collapsing Opposites drummer
Laura Hatfield. The album was co-produced by McCormick
and Pietro Sammarco (Pippo Sound).
Collapsing Opposites began as a McCormick solo
project with the 2002 release of his introductory Demonstration
EP. Initially adhering to a staunch solo mentality, each
subsequent release has been more developed than albums
prior, as McCormick gradually welcomed more and more
guest musicians into the fold. This process culminated in the
abandonment of the one-man-band approach and the addition
of drummer Laura Hatfield (Better Friends Than Lovers) and
keyboardist Jeff Johnson (OK Vancouver OK, Greenbelt
Collective) for touring which will follow Inside ChanceÆs release.
Since February 2004, Collapsing Opposites has
toured continuously, playing hundreds of shows throughout
Canada, the USA and Japan, touring with acts such as The
Doers, The Winks, Anni Rossi, Ill Ease and The Gift
Machine. The experience of being a travelling musician,
struggling to get by yet desperately driven to continue, appears
throughout many of Collapsing OppositesÆ songs, as
McCormick externalizes what have become, for much of the
indie world, ubiquitous questions: of art and the commercial,
of the personal and public, of the experience of being a
musician in todayÆs scene.