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All is Quiet At the Ancient Theatre

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    Pro-dubbed cassette tape in Maltese cross style box.

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  • COLOUR Vinyl LP (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube)
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This is a limited edition COLOUR Vinyl LP release from Cardinal Fuzz (UK) and Feeding Tube Records (USA). For USA sales, please visit feedingtuberecords.com

    Vinylization of the second cassette released by UK string player Alison Cotton. We first ran into Alison's work in its more overtly folky guise, as a member of Left Outsides (FTR342, FTR404). Then we caught the scent of an amazing tape she did with Michael Tanner (aka Plinth) that displayed her more avant garde leanings. All Is Quiet followed the same lines, albeit in solo fashion, blending long dark viola and harmonium lines with vocals drawn straight from the clouds.

    The effect resembles Tony Conard in places and John Cale's work with Nico in others, while remaining trademark Alison Cotton throughout. And as nice as the tape was, it's even nicer to has this music on an LP, since it's an archival format and will outlive all of us if properly cared for. Just as the music of Alison Cotton feels as though it was designed to last through the ages.

    Beautiful stuff.

    (Byron Coley)

    Released - November 16 2018 by Cardinal Fuzz (UK) / Feeding Tube (USA)

    Originally released as a cassette on Bloxham Tapes bloxhamtapes.bandcamp.com/album/all-is-quiet-at-the-ancient-theatre

    All compositions by Alison Cotton, 2018

    All songs recorded & mixed by Mark Nicholas except ‘36 Dramatic Situations’ which was recorded & mixed by Erik Lintunen.

    Mastering by Chris Hardman

    Tape Delay on '36 Dramatic Situations' by Simon Galloway

    Sleeve Design by Luke Drozd

    PRESS -

    THE QUIETUS ALBUMS OF THE YEAR (NUMBER 49) -
    Alison Cotton’s album is a highly memorable suite evoking other times and places with a deftness and a lightness of touch. She is an excellent and restrained songwriter, confidently combining instrumental and vocal music to create a recording that delivers much and promises more to come. TOM BOLTON

    In THE GUARDIAN WRITER'S ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2018 (Selected by LUKE TURNER)

    THE GUARDIAN FOLK ALBUMS OF THE MONTH
    "An eerie, lost folk horror soundtrack glinting in the sunshine, Cotton’s pure English voice rising mysteriously around the violas and recorders." JUDE ROGERS, THE GUARDIAN

    “Forlorn, hypnotic drone hymns for an ancient haunted England” ANDREW MALE, MOJO 4*

    "Although this is music feels irrevocably for the countryside, I'd really recommend listening to 'All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre' on your Walkman while standing in the middle of a busy city centre. The power of this music is simply awe-inspiring. When Alison Cotton plays, the world stands still… Magnificent work, and it must be said, beautifully presented by the fantastic Bloxham Tapes (their entire back catalogue comes highly recommended)…" TRISTAN BATH, SPOOLS OUT: JULY 2018, THE QUIETUS

    "Alison Cotton of avant folk duo The Left Outsides creates a psychedelic pagan folk ritual with her viola, recorder, percussion and ghostly voice on 'All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre'. Slowing things down to a droning pace, Cotton seems to summon up mystical powers through her eerie Clannad-ish chants on 'The Bells of St Agnes'. And like Laura Cannell, she finds similar tones of drone within her string music by allowing space for the dragged out notes to echo and buzz on 'The Last Sense To Leave Us'. Her choral vocal pipes in with a numbing effect, floating upfront and back into the shadows again on the five tracks, which were all improvised… Better than any mindfulness app for cleansing the brainwaves and stilling the souls of the godless for hald an hour or so…" CLAIRE SAWERS, THE WIRE

    "The opening, title track is built around a repeated, six-note viola phrase that seems to echo around an amphitheatre of stone. Heat haze rises from empty seats, but the music is playing from a time when the theatre was packed. A drone builds and the falling phrase emerges haltingly, as though calling out for the first time in centuries. As the viola sings, a chorus of soft, layered voices, percussion and recorder swells in the background and soon a cast is on stage, performing a forgotten ritual. If any piece of music can awaken a lost time, this is surely it." TOM BOLTON, THE QUIETUS

    “These five sombre meditations feel still and timeless; austerely melancholy, and haunted by ghosts that will linger long after the final note has faded” SHINDIG! MAGAZINE

    “A haunting drone reverie set against stark backdrops of skeletal trees and ancient church ruins (even a deserted WW1 battlefield)” PROG MAGAZINE

    "Perhaps it might be better to say that Cotton’s music finds the sacred in the pastoral, or that this roots the avant-garde in the traditional. It is, perhaps, apt that Cotton’s titles reference so many spaces: this is work that’s established its own ground on which to dwell, to expand, and to quietly inspire" TOBIAS CARROLL, DUSTED MAGAZINE.

    "Make no mistake this is a work of great depth and passion and one which reveals more of its irresistibly melancholic charm with each successive listen. From those chilly fields at dawn to the blasted heaths of existence and all points above and below ground this engulfs you like a creeping vine. Thankfully I’m still hopelessly lost in the dense and tangled thicket of sound and likely to be for quite a while. Rustle among yourselves." TERRASCOPE

    "An astounding work, primarily strings and vocals in the service of British folk music, both abstracted and realized, across a series of mournful vignettes slow, deliberate, and resolute" DOUG MOSUROCK, HEATHEN DISCO

    "Alison Cotton’s haunting and lovely All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre blends early music modalities with modern minimalism (a la Tony Conrad and the original Dream Syndicate), creating a thoroughly absorbing listening experience. Droning violas, minor key melodies, (mostly) wordless vocals … It’s definitely similar to the otherworldly sounds that Nico and John Cale made on The Marble Index and Desertshore – always a good thing in my book. Music made for flickering candlelight, shadowy cathedrals and esoteric rituals …"TYLER WILCOX, DOOM & GLOOM FROM THE TOMB

    ”This is a work that is surely destined to be an enduring, timeless classic”.
    KENT WHIRLOW, TERRASCOPAEDIA

    "The only thing that does a better job of crafting a vivid environment than the title of Alison Cotton’s new album is the music itself. 'All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre' is a mysterious, spacious album; one of the first things I noticed is the cavernous, reverb-filled production, which frames the sounds throughout in much the same way as I imagine a high-ceilinged, shadowy, dusty chapel would. Cotton’s drones, played on viola, recorder, and her own voice, ring out through the darkness, coexisting with the weighty silence as they materialize and dissipate… 'All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre' is a fantastic solo effort…" NOISE NOT MUSIC

    "Something so beautiful and powerful that it took my breath away… With this solo outing via the veritable Bloxham Tapes, Alison Cotton has produced something that transcends any notions of genres and pigeonholing." RATS IN THE WALLS

    "Cotton is an artist of profound talent and her mastery of her chosen instrument deeply impressive. All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre is consequently an album to stand proudly in any collection". [SIC] MAGAZINE

    ”This is a work that is surely destined to be an enduring, timeless classic”. TERRASCOPAEDIA

    "An astounding work, primarily strings and vocals in the service of British folk music, both abstracted and realized, across a series of mournful vignettes slow, deliberate, and resolute". HEATHEN DISCO

    "Alison Cotton’s haunting and lovely All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre blends early music modalities with modern minimalism (a la Tony Conrad and the original Dream Syndicate), creating a thoroughly absorbing listening experience. Music made for flickering candlelight, shadowy cathedrals and esoteric rituals …"DOOM & GLOOM FROM THE TOMB

    Includes unlimited streaming of All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • BLACK Vinyl LP (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube Records)
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This is a limited edition BLACK Vinyl LP release from Cardinal Fuzz (UK) and Feeding Tube Records (USA). For USA sales please visit feedingtuberecords.com

    Vinylization of the second cassette released by UK string player Alison Cotton. We first ran into Alison's work in its more overtly folky guise, as a member of Left Outsides (FTR342, FTR404). Then we caught the scent of an amazing tape she did with Michael Tanner (aka Plinth) that displayed her more avant garde leanings. All Is Quiet followed the same lines, albeit in solo fashion, blending long dark viola and harmonium lines with vocals drawn straight from the clouds.

    The effect resembles Tony Conard in places and John Cale's work with Nico in others, while remaining trademark Alison Cotton throughout. And as nice as the tape was, it's even nicer to has this music on an LP, since it's an archival format and will outlive all of us if properly cared for. Just as the music of Alison Cotton feels as though it was designed to last through the ages.

    Beautiful stuff.

    (Byron Coley)

    ............

    Released - November 16 2018 by Cardinal Fuzz (UK) / Feeding Tube (USA)

    Originally released as a cassette on Bloxham Tapes bloxhamtapes.bandcamp.com/album/all-is-quiet-at-the-ancient-theatre

    All compositions by Alison Cotton, 2018

    All songs recorded & mixed by Mark Nicholas except ‘36 Dramatic Situations’ which was recorded & mixed by Erik Lintunen.

    Mastering by Chris Hardman

    Tape Delay on '36 Dramatic Situations' by Simon Galloway

    Sleeve Design by Luke Drozd

    PRESS -

    THE QUIETUS ALBUMS OF THE YEAR (NUMBER 49) -
    Alison Cotton’s album is a highly memorable suite evoking other times and places with a deftness and a lightness of touch. She is an excellent and restrained songwriter, confidently combining instrumental and vocal music to create a recording that delivers much and promises more to come. TOM BOLTON

    In THE GUARDIAN WRITER'S ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2018 (Selected by LUKE TURNER)

    THE GUARDIAN FOLK ALBUMS OF THE MONTH
    "An eerie, lost folk horror soundtrack glinting in the sunshine, Cotton’s pure English voice rising mysteriously around the violas and recorders." JUDE ROGERS, THE GUARDIAN

    “Forlorn, hypnotic drone hymns for an ancient haunted England” ANDREW MALE, MOJO 4*

    "Although this is music feels irrevocably for the countryside, I'd really recommend listening to 'All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre' on your Walkman while standing in the middle of a busy city centre. The power of this music is simply awe-inspiring. When Alison Cotton plays, the world stands still… Magnificent work, and it must be said, beautifully presented by the fantastic Bloxham Tapes (their entire back catalogue comes highly recommended)…" TRISTAN BATH, SPOOLS OUT: JULY 2018, THE QUIETUS

    "Alison Cotton of avant folk duo The Left Outsides creates a psychedelic pagan folk ritual with her viola, recorder, percussion and ghostly voice on 'All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre'. Slowing things down to a droning pace, Cotton seems to summon up mystical powers through her eerie Clannad-ish chants on 'The Bells of St Agnes'. And like Laura Cannell, she finds similar tones of drone within her string music by allowing space for the dragged out notes to echo and buzz on 'The Last Sense To Leave Us'. Her choral vocal pipes in with a numbing effect, floating upfront and back into the shadows again on the five tracks, which were all improvised… Better than any mindfulness app for cleansing the brainwaves and stilling the souls of the godless for hald an hour or so…" CLAIRE SAWERS, THE WIRE

    "The opening, title track is built around a repeated, six-note viola phrase that seems to echo around an amphitheatre of stone. Heat haze rises from empty seats, but the music is playing from a time when the theatre was packed. A drone builds and the falling phrase emerges haltingly, as though calling out for the first time in centuries. As the viola sings, a chorus of soft, layered voices, percussion and recorder swells in the background and soon a cast is on stage, performing a forgotten ritual. If any piece of music can awaken a lost time, this is surely it." TOM BOLTON, THE QUIETUS

    “These five sombre meditations feel still and timeless; austerely melancholy, and haunted by ghosts that will linger long after the final note has faded” SHINDIG! MAGAZINE

    “A haunting drone reverie set against stark backdrops of skeletal trees and ancient church ruins (even a deserted WW1 battlefield)”
    PROG MAGAZINE

    "Perhaps it might be better to say that Cotton’s music finds the sacred in the pastoral, or that this roots the avant-garde in the traditional. It is, perhaps, apt that Cotton’s titles reference so many spaces: this is work that’s established its own ground on which to dwell, to expand, and to quietly inspire" TOBIAS CARROLL, DUSTED MAGAZINE.

    "Make no mistake this is a work of great depth and passion and one which reveals more of its irresistibly melancholic charm with each successive listen. From those chilly fields at dawn to the blasted heaths of existence and all points above and below ground this engulfs you like a creeping vine. Thankfully I’m still hopelessly lost in the dense and tangled thicket of sound and likely to be for quite a while. Rustle among yourselves." TERRASCOPE

    "An astounding work, primarily strings and vocals in the service of British folk music, both abstracted and realized, across a series of mournful vignettes slow, deliberate, and resolute" DOUG MOSUROCK, HEATHEN DISCO

    "Alison Cotton’s haunting and lovely All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre blends early music modalities with modern minimalism (a la Tony Conrad and the original Dream Syndicate), creating a thoroughly absorbing listening experience. Droning violas, minor key melodies, (mostly) wordless vocals … It’s definitely similar to the otherworldly sounds that Nico and John Cale made on The Marble Index and Desertshore – always a good thing in my book. Music made for flickering candlelight, shadowy cathedrals and esoteric rituals …"TYLER WILCOX, DOOM & GLOOM FROM THE TOMB

    ”This is a work that is surely destined to be an enduring, timeless classic”.
    KENT WHIRLOW, TERRASCOPAEDIA

    "The only thing that does a better job of crafting a vivid environment than the title of Alison Cotton’s new album is the music itself. 'All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre' is a mysterious, spacious album; one of the first things I noticed is the cavernous, reverb-filled production, which frames the sounds throughout in much the same way as I imagine a high-ceilinged, shadowy, dusty chapel would. Cotton’s drones, played on viola, recorder, and her own voice, ring out through the darkness, coexisting with the weighty silence as they materialize and dissipate… 'All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre' is a fantastic solo effort…" NOISE NOT MUSIC

    "Something so beautiful and powerful that it took my breath away… With this solo outing via the veritable Bloxham Tapes, Alison Cotton has produced something that transcends any notions of genres and pigeonholing." RATS IN THE WALLS


    "Cotton is an artist of profound talent and her mastery of her chosen instrument deeply impressive. All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre is consequently an album to stand proudly in any collection". [SIC] MAGAZINE

    ”This is a work that is surely destined to be an enduring, timeless classic”. TERRASCOPAEDIA

    "An astounding work, primarily strings and vocals in the service of British folk music, both abstracted and realized, across a series of mournful vignettes slow, deliberate, and resolute". HEATHEN DISCO

    "Alison Cotton’s haunting and lovely All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre blends early music modalities with modern minimalism (a la Tony Conrad and the original Dream Syndicate), creating a thoroughly absorbing listening experience. Music made for flickering candlelight, shadowy cathedrals and esoteric rituals …"DOOM & GLOOM FROM THE TOMB

    Includes unlimited streaming of All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Vinyl Replica CDR made by Sam Giles

    For devotees of contemporary psychedelic folk and viola trance-out, Alison Cotton requires little introduction. She is half of acclaimed songwriting partnership The Left Outsides, a member of The Trimdon Grange Explosion, and occasional contributor to the United Bible Studies collective. Her breathtaking collaborative cassette with Plinth’s Michael Tanner points the way to this, her debut solo release.

    A solo project in the truest sense, viola, recorder, percussion and mesmerising voice are the instruments in Alison’s orchestra as she takes the stage at the Ancient Theatre. Rich sound breaks the stillness. Drone dreams seep through sepia photographs. Nothing here now but the improvised recordings, captured on this release.
    Out of time. Timeless. All is quiet in the ancient theatre of eternal music.
    ...................

    Released - November 16 2018 by Cardinal Fuzz (UK) / Feeding Tube (USA)

    Originally released as a cassette on Bloxham Tapes bloxhamtapes.bandcamp.com/album/all-is-quiet-at-the-ancient-theatre

    All compositions by Alison Cotton, 2018

    All songs recorded & mixed by Mark Nicholas except ‘36 Dramatic Situations’ which was recorded & mixed by Erik Lintunen.

    Mastering by Chris Hardman

    Tape Delay on '36 Dramatic Situations' by Simon Galloway

    Sleeve Design by Luke Drozd

    PRESS -

    THE QUIETUS ALBUMS OF THE YEAR (NUMBER 49) -
    Alison Cotton’s album is a highly memorable suite evoking other times and places with a deftness and a lightness of touch. She is an excellent and restrained songwriter, confidently combining instrumental and vocal music to create a recording that delivers much and promises more to come. TOM BOLTON

    In THE GUARDIAN WRITER'S ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2018 (Selected by LUKE TURNER)

    THE GUARDIAN FOLK ALBUMS OF THE MONTH
    "An eerie, lost folk horror soundtrack glinting in the sunshine, Cotton’s pure English voice rising mysteriously around the violas and recorders." JUDE ROGERS, THE GUARDIAN

    “Forlorn, hypnotic drone hymns for an ancient haunted England” ANDREW MALE, MOJO 4*

    "Although this is music feels irrevocably for the countryside, I'd really recommend listening to 'All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre' on your Walkman while standing in the middle of a busy city centre. The power of this music is simply awe-inspiring. When Alison Cotton plays, the world stands still… Magnificent work, and it must be said, beautifully presented by the fantastic Bloxham Tapes (their entire back catalogue comes highly recommended)…" TRISTAN BATH, SPOOLS OUT: JULY 2018, THE QUIETUS

    "Alison Cotton of avant folk duo The Left Outsides creates a psychedelic pagan folk ritual with her viola, recorder, percussion and ghostly voice on 'All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre'. Slowing things down to a droning pace, Cotton seems to summon up mystical powers through her eerie Clannad-ish chants on 'The Bells of St Agnes'. And like Laura Cannell, she finds similar tones of drone within her string music by allowing space for the dragged out notes to echo and buzz on 'The Last Sense To Leave Us'. Her choral vocal pipes in with a numbing effect, floating upfront and back into the shadows again on the five tracks, which were all improvised… Better than any mindfulness app for cleansing the brainwaves and stilling the souls of the godless for hald an hour or so…" CLAIRE SAWERS, THE WIRE

    "The opening, title track is built around a repeated, six-note viola phrase that seems to echo around an amphitheatre of stone. Heat haze rises from empty seats, but the music is playing from a time when the theatre was packed. A drone builds and the falling phrase emerges haltingly, as though calling out for the first time in centuries. As the viola sings, a chorus of soft, layered voices, percussion and recorder swells in the background and soon a cast is on stage, performing a forgotten ritual. If any piece of music can awaken a lost time, this is surely it." TOM BOLTON, THE QUIETUS

    “These five sombre meditations feel still and timeless; austerely melancholy, and haunted by ghosts that will linger long after the final note has faded” SHINDIG! MAGAZINE

    “A haunting drone reverie set against stark backdrops of skeletal trees and ancient church ruins (even a deserted WW1 battlefield)”PROG MAGAZINE

    "Perhaps it might be better to say that Cotton’s music finds the sacred in the pastoral, or that this roots the avant-garde in the traditional. It is, perhaps, apt that Cotton’s titles reference so many spaces: this is work that’s established its own ground on which to dwell, to expand, and to quietly inspire" TOBIAS CARROLL, DUSTED MAGAZINE.

    "Make no mistake this is a work of great depth and passion and one which reveals more of its irresistibly melancholic charm with each successive listen. From those chilly fields at dawn to the blasted heaths of existence and all points above and below ground this engulfs you like a creeping vine. Thankfully I’m still hopelessly lost in the dense and tangled thicket of sound and likely to be for quite a while. Rustle among yourselves." TERRASCOPE

    "An astounding work, primarily strings and vocals in the service of British folk music, both abstracted and realized, across a series of mournful vignettes slow, deliberate, and resolute" DOUG MOSUROCK, HEATHEN DISCO

    "Alison Cotton’s haunting and lovely All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre blends early music modalities with modern minimalism (a la Tony Conrad and the original Dream Syndicate), creating a thoroughly absorbing listening experience. Droning violas, minor key melodies, (mostly) wordless vocals … It’s definitely similar to the otherworldly sounds that Nico and John Cale made on The Marble Index and Desertshore – always a good thing in my book. Music made for flickering candlelight, shadowy cathedrals and esoteric rituals …"TYLER WILCOX, DOOM & GLOOM FROM THE TOMB

    ”This is a work that is surely destined to be an enduring, timeless classic”.
    KENT WHIRLOW, TERRASCOPAEDIA

    "The only thing that does a better job of crafting a vivid environment than the title of Alison Cotton’s new album is the music itself. 'All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre' is a mysterious, spacious album; one of the first things I noticed is the cavernous, reverb-filled production, which frames the sounds throughout in much the same way as I imagine a high-ceilinged, shadowy, dusty chapel would. Cotton’s drones, played on viola, recorder, and her own voice, ring out through the darkness, coexisting with the weighty silence as they materialize and dissipate… 'All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre' is a fantastic solo effort…" NOISE NOT MUSIC

    "Something so beautiful and powerful that it took my breath away… With this solo outing via the veritable Bloxham Tapes, Alison Cotton has produced something that transcends any notions of genres and pigeonholing." RATS IN THE WALLS

    Cotton is an artist of profound talent and her mastery of her chosen instrument deeply impressive. All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre is consequently an album to stand proudly in any collection". [SIC] MAGAZINE

    ”This is a work that is surely destined to be an enduring, timeless classic”. TERRASCOPAEDIA

    "An astounding work, primarily strings and vocals in the service of British folk music, both abstracted and realized, across a series of mournful vignettes slow, deliberate, and resolute". HEATHEN DISCO

    "Alison Cotton’s haunting and lovely All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre blends early music modalities with modern minimalism (a la Tony Conrad and the original Dream Syndicate), creating a thoroughly absorbing listening experience. Music made for flickering candlelight, shadowy cathedrals and esoteric rituals …"DOOM & GLOOM FROM THE TOMB


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  • 12" yellow vinyl re-issued on Friendly recordings 2021
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl - reissued by Friendly Recordings

    All Is Quiet...' begins in the cold droned echoes of Nico's 'Frozen Warnings' but this is a lament for vanishing English customs, performance & countryside.

    Viola, harmonium & recorders bring a lost sound – the squeeze box rasp accompanying country dances, the deathly percussive march of 'A Tragedy In The Tithe Barn' and ballad themes of departure & waiting as in 'The Bells of St. Agnes'.

    Alison's music appears to be searching the past; there is stillness & desolation reminiscent of the tree stumped landscapes of painter Paul Nash. Where Nico's The Marble Index or Desert Shore are an icy tundra of harmonium & voice, Alison's viola and choral layers hold an earthy, distinctly English experimental resonance with early music modalities; these are stone images of the medieval & pagan age – a buried cast of players, people, traditions & craft.

    It's mournful, yes, though in the wavering viola drones the listener will find contemplative spaces of light & renewal. Originally a cassette release on Bloxham Tapes with a limited vinyl pressing by Cardinal Fuzz & Feeding Tube which sold out almost instantly with little press. This'll most likely be the last window on Cotton's wonderful solo debut.

    Coloured vinyl & altered artwork by Luke Drozd.

    Includes unlimited streaming of All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 12 The Left Outsides releases available on Bandcamp and save 30%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Alison Cotton Live at Cafe Oto, London - 27 October 2021, The Girl I Left Behind Me, Are You Sure I Was There?, Only Darkness Now, A Place to Hide, Behind the Spider Web Gate, All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre, All That Remains, and 4 more. , and , .

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The Left Outsides are: Mark Nicholas and Alison Cotton, a wife and husband duo based in London, England whose atmospheric, hypnotic songs echo Nico's icy European folk, pastoral psychedelia and chilly English fields at dawn.

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