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)