All That Remains digital album available to download at at The Left Outsides Bandcamp page. Includes unlimited streaming plus high quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
‘There Is A Place’ takes its inspiration from the forest, with the LP made up of new compositions as well as reworked recordings the band wrote and performed for Gus Alvarez’s film, Stand & Deliver. “In a woodland clearing lies the body of a young woman. A sharp intake of breath - she is alive. What happened last night? Into the woods she searches for answers”…
Shindig! Magazine 4* This album successfully marries the bleary narcotic dream-pop ethic of Grouper and Beach House (check out the truly stunning 'One Step At A Time’) with the more familiar drone-folk / pastoral excursions, most of which ('Time Makes A Fool Of Us All’, 'The Creeping Fog’) play out like some weird Anglo-Gothic film soundtrack, but are kept in balance by a gorgeous and inspired reading of Jack Frost’s 'Civil War Lament’. Johnnie Johnstone
Textura Magazine (Canada) “The brooding instrumental 'Cry of the Hunter’ eases the listener in on a dramatic note with mournful expressions of strings, guitar, and wordless vocalizing punctuated by piano chords, the piece resembling at times a meditative King Crimson improv from the early ‘70s”…….. textura.org/archives/l/leftoutsides_thereplace.htm
Terrascope “The lush but all too brief ‘Into The Deep’ persists with the shadowy subject matter, before the shards of guitar, mournful sawing and cavernous, wordless vocals on ‘Time Makes A Fool Of Us All’ (a sentiment I’m constantly reminded of these days) provides a genuinely transcendent moment. If this doesn’t make the hairs on your arms stand up then please accept my congratulations on an exfoliation job overdone. You’ll be jolted back into the room (or wherever takes your listening pleasure) courtesy of the sharply anachronistic ‘odd chapter’ here, characterised by the exquisite, sixties-style psych pop harmonies of ‘Under Noonday Sun’. By contrast, ‘The House Of The Stone Bell’ (you’d be forgiven for thinking it was the eponymous track as the album title crops up a few times in the lyrics) exudes an achingly wistful longing and an arrangement and melody to cry for”. Ian Fraser www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Reviews_July_17.htm#LeftOutsides
Echoes And Dust “Their music has the ability to cause a displacement in your mind as a haunting otherness seeps through. It’s European but essentially old English folk, giving a curious mismatch of ideas. That they can pull this together in such rapturous beauty as on their previous release, The Shape Of Things To Come is all the more remarkable.” Martin Coppack echoesanddust.com/2017/07/the-left-outsides-there-is-a-place/
Days of Purple and Orange “Opener 'Cry Of The Hunter’ is the aural equivalent of The Wicker Man - haunting drones and ethereal vocals that convey the superstitious folklore of the English countryside…..The album as a whole is gorgeous….rich drones, thoughtful lyrics and the vocals, both Mark and Alison, are sumptuous. It is a lysergically charged bucolic delight!”
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The band is The Left Outsides, Mark Nicholas and Alison Cotton, a husband and wife duo based in London, England whose atmospheric, hypnotic songs echo Nico’s icy European folk, pastoral psychedelia and chilly English fields at dawn.
The new album is The Shape of Things to Come, mixed by Martin Noble of British Sea Power and Graham Sutton of Bark Psychosis (who’s produced These New Puritans, Jarvis Cocker, Silver Apples). Thirteen tracks with a new direction but also a common thread that goes back to The Left Outsides haunted, fragile 2008 debut album, And Colours In Between, their live album of the same year, Live At The Drop Out, and their experimental soundtrack for Gus Alvarez’s film Stand & Deliver in 2009.
The songs include modern-day murder ballads, 60s beat psychedelia and outsider folk, with music and lyrics inspired by memories, dreams and Gregorian chants.
Before The Left Outsides, Mark and Alison were members of the psych folk group The Eighteenth Day of May. Alison was also in John Peel favourites Saloon, and in the past decade her sought-after viola-playing has led to high-profile work with leading musicians. She’s played live with Cheval Sombre, Pete Astor, British Air Powers (an early version of British Sea Power), collaborates with Plinth and Mathew Sawyer and her viola playing and arrangements can be heard throughout Paperback Ghosts, the latest album by acclaimed indie band Comet Gain.
Since forming, The Left Outsides have gathered fans far and wide, playing across the UK, France, Germany and in the USA on their own, supporting kindred spirits including Dead Meadow, The Clientele, Mark Mulcahy and the Bevis Frond and playing Phil McMullen’s Terrascope festival. They’ve recorded radio sessions for Stuart Maconie’s Freakzone and Tom Robinson’s show on BBC6 Music and this year began with Pete Paphides getting The Left Outsides as the first guests to perform on his new radio show for Soho Radio.
The Shape of Things to Come sees the Left Outsides expand and deepen their sound with an enhanced line-up, textured layers and experimental guitar creating an unnerving off-kilter edge.