New Music Single & EP Reviews Unsigned: eighteenth day of may hi beat records left outsides
by Matthew
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The Left Outsides – The Third Light
Here’s a bit of 7″ pleasure that no-one with any vaguely folky inclinations should permit to pass them by. The Left Outsides were born in the fallout of the demise of brilliant London psych-folksters The 18th Day of May. Alison and Mark played viola and guitar respectively in that much-lamented band, and have since continued to play together, forming The Left Outsides fairly hot on the heels of the breakup.
There are times when their music is a little glacial of pace for my liking, but they are capable of doing some really brilliant things at times too. Their new single is out on Hi Beat Records, a small London imprint from the looks of it, and contains two sides of genuine brilliance.
I really, really want to play you the song, but even an internet fundamentalist like myself knows it would be a bit self-defeating to ask you to go and pay £3.50 for a single I’ve just allowed you to download for nothing. It’s frustrating though. I can be previewed here, at their MySpace page, however and I recommend you do so because it’s an excellent track. The b-side is a Found remix of Deep Rivers Move In Silence; Shallow Brooks Are Noisy; Found’s trademark glitchery is very subtly applied, and as remixes go this is about as effective as I’ve heard.
All in all then, a bag of boyish enthusiasm from this amphibian. I have ordered one myself and I bloody well expect you lot to as well.
The Left Outsides – Fallen by the Wayside (from And Colours in Between)
The Left Outsides – The Ballad of Jim Jones(from Leave the Frozen Butterflies Behind)
ah, music. I remember this…
Honestly, try the single. It’s not floaty, it’s a straight-up pop song and it’s excellent. I played it on a Toadcast – this one in fact – although I got the name wrong because my mp3s were badly tagged. Have a listen, I bet you like it.
Have you heard The See See? They’re fronted by Richard Olson from the 18th Day of May and they opened some gigs for The Raconteurs recently. They have a couple oftop notch singles on their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/theseeseeband
Hmm, I generally like the music from the British folk revival section, but for some reason ‘Etherial Folk Voice’ just really leaves me cold. The music is good though.