Stay Inside

Stay Inside is a post-hardcore / indie / emo band from Brooklyn, NY, featuring Vishnu Anantha (drums), Chris Johns (vocals/guitar), Chris Lawless (guitar) and Bryn Nieboer (bass), and sometimes Matt Hull (trumpet) and Shelley Washington (sax).

Oh, hey, it's Chris Johns, from this band you're looking at. We kinda recently released our second album, called Ferried Away. It's about growing up and dealing with becoming distant with your friends and love ones. We recorded it with our good friend Brian DiMeglio (Superbloom, Proper.) in Brooklyn at his studio, and in my apartment.

We've done some cool tours with some cool bands that we love: Teen Suicide, The Wonder Years, The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, For Your Health, and awakebutstillinbed. We probably have more shows coming up. You should come prolly.

Here are a couple of reviews:

"Stay Inside fuse screamo brutality with post-punk elegance, suggesting an alternate history where Interpol recorded Turn on the Bright Lights with the guy from seminal screamo band Saetia still on drums."
-Pitchfork

“...big, clean, soaring songs that sound like the past three decades of emo chewed up and spit back out in a way that’s familiar but fresh. They’re clearly pulling from the sounds of emo’s underground, but they play and sing like they want to be the biggest band in the world.”
-BrooklynVegan

"...one of the most intriguing, enigmatic emo bands to emerge in some time: colliding the dynamism of the genre's past with lyrical insights that are both poetic and poignant."
-Rock Sound