The Left Outsides - Are You Sure I Was There? (2020)

2020 studio LP from superb London duo, The Left Outsides, the follow up on 2018's amazing 'All That Remains'. The basic building blocks remain the same - half of the sound is Alison Cotton and her viola and keys, the other half is Mark Nicholas with a stunning array of guitars - but the structures they create this time are darker and more forbidding than their antecedents. This album feels very much a piece of the season in which it is being released, as the leaves strip themselves from trees and the sky grows colder, greyer by the hour. More than once while 'Are You Sure I Was There?' spun Cardinal Fuzz was put in mind of the classic 'Rainy Day' LP, masterminded by Kendra Smith back in 1984. The Left Outsides possess the same sure grasp of that place where sorrow, ecstasy and psychedelics meet in a shower of dying stars. Co-release with Feeding Tube.