Anyone interested in the offbeat by way of new music, not to mention the pleasures afforded by the string quintet – that’s a string quartet plus double bass for extra heft down below – should look no further than Outliers, the smart as a fox latest release from the fabulously-christened Sybarite5. Not only are they one of the few dedicated quintet line-ups out there, over the past 12 years they have almost single-handedly rejuvenated the repertoire, commissioning new works at a rate of half a dozen per annum, from some of the most interesting voices on the US contemporary music scene.

If you’ve heard their imaginatively reworked Radiohead album, you’ll know that musically speaking they like to inhabit the centre ground between acerbic...