MP3: Exclusive: The Longcut: "Last Act (live)"
New single, online EP due

Chalk it up to restlessness: Not content to release their album and leave it be, up-and-coming Mancunians the Longcut are constantly releasing singles and recording new versions of their own songs. They even get their famous friends involved, having tracks remixed by Four Tet and now the Go! Team.

According to a press release, the Go! Team genre-crossers "add clattering drums, melodica, backing vocals and plenty of vintage-sounding fuzz" to their remix of the Longcut's new single "A Tried and Tested Method". The remix will serve as the B-side to the 12" version of the single. The CD version will feature two new, currently undetermined B-sides from the band themselves. "A Tried and Tested Method" is the fourth single from the Longcut's debut, A Call and Response, and it will be released September 25 on Deltasonic in the U.S.

Really though, this is old news from the Pitchfork camp. The real update is that the band are releasing a download-only EP via Deltasonic on August 21. The EP features title track "Idiot Check" in addition to album cuts "Vitamin C", "Lonesome No More!", and "The Kiss Off", all re-recorded live at Airtight Studios with Giles Hatton of the Earlies at the boards. It will be available on iTunes, Napster, and HMV in addition to a few smaller UK digital distributors.

Longcut fans can hear another song from their Airtight session by downloading the exclusive mp3 below. It is a live-in-the-studio version of "A Last Act of Desperate Men", shortened simply to "Last Act".

MP3: The Longcut: Last Act (live)