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Jennifer Lucy Allan , March 9th, 2021 08:43 Jennifer Lucy Allan interviews the Sunderland-born viola player about where her music takes her, sharing a history with British Sea Power, and what pushed her to begin making solo music Alison Cotton tintype portrait by Andy Martin When people talk of music ‘transporting’ them somewhere, more often than not they are describing a vague escape from an immediate (probably domestic) reality – an experience of music that for a few sacred moments makes them forget about the washing up. What is not usually intended is the feeling one has actually tra...
Zener 08 live set and the haunting Only Darkness Now, while the band’s 2019 live album, A Place To Hide finally became an artefact for those with a penchant for vinyl. And that’s before we stop to consider the vinyl retrospective of their alma mater, The Eighteenth Day Of May. Now comes the band’s fifth studio album, Are You Sure I Was There?. Using only the finest ingredients, including psychedelia, folk, freakbeat and ethereal drones, The Left Outsides have created a seamless and coherent statement. This is no mean feat, not least as the vocal duties are split between Cotton and h...