Locked out from the Inside is the third studio album by Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

-based alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Nine Black Alps

Nine Black Alps

Nine Black Alps are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester, named after a line in The Couriers by Sylvia Plath and fronted by Sam Forrest.-Career:...

, released on October 5, 2009. The album was released digitally with the purchase of tour tickets on August 6, 2009. The album was released on the band's own Lost House Records label.

Locked Out from the Inside was preceded by the single "Buy Nothing" (which included the only b-side "Never Wonder Why").

The album was recorded at Bryn Derwen Studios in Bethesda, Gwynedd, North Wales

North Wales

North Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England...

 with producer Dave Eringa

Dave Eringa

Dave Eringa is an English record producer from Essex who has engineered, mixed, produced, and played on albums by such bands as Manic Street Preachers, Ocean Colour Scene, Idlewild, 3 Colours Red, South and Johnny Boy...

. Vocalist and guitarist Sam Forrest

Sam Forrest

Sam Forrest is the lead singer and guitarist for Nine Black Alps, a member of The Sorry Kisses and a solo singer-songwriter. Forrest previously played bass in The Halcyon Band....

describes the album as:

Track listing

1. "Vampire In The Sun"
2. "Salt Water"
3. "Every Photograph Steals Your Soul"
4. "Cold Star"
5. "Bay of Angels"
6. "Porcupine"
7. "Full Moon Summer"
8. "Silence Kills"
9. "Buy Nothing"
10. "Along For The Ride"
11. "Ghost In The City"