Sung, as are all Tindersticks songs, by Stuart Staples in the club style, it initially follows the studio version to the letter. Which is no bad thing: as we've come to expect, it's elegant, organ-led melancholia at its best. As music to weep into your pint to, it doesn't get much better than this.

But after a couple of minutes it erupts into a strangely lively call-and-response passage between Staples and his backing singers: more effective live than on record, one suspects. And Tout L'Amour, a re-working of All The Love (also from The Hungry Saw), feels more like a GCSE translation exercise than an impassioned Gallic torch song, mainly thanks to a slightly ropey French accent.

Available only as a limited 7' or download, this is a pleasing curio for Tindersticks completists and collectors; but for the rest of us, sticking with the album versions will most likely suffice.

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