Low Island

Pop instinct with avant-garde ambition' Rolling Stone | ‘Arena-ready’ The Line of Best Fit

'Their future in music is bright' PASTE | ‘Delicious alt-pop’ CLASH 

‘A brilliant, hardworking band. They deserve every success’ Deb Grant - BBC 6Music  | 'Gripping' Record Collector 

'Original atmospheric electronic sound' The i | ‘Stunning’ Jack Saunders - BBC Radio 1

Low Island announce the extended edition of second album Life In Miniature for release on March 10th via their own label Emotional Interference - preceded by brand new single ‘It Holds And It Holds’ today.

The deluxe version lands as the quartet take off to perform at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin. Either side of this stateside jaunt they undertake their most significant UK headline tour to date, and support indie icons Friendly Fires in London for their double-header at HERE at Outernet tonight and tomorrow. Full dates below.    

New single ‘It Holds And It Holds’ falls squarely into Low Island’s arsenal of engaging electronica-tinged art-rock. Similarly, it continues vocalist Carlos Posada’s artisanal control of poignant sentiment in his lyrics and delivery. As he explains: 

“It’s a song about the affirmational power of love amongst friends and family - during the pandemic we were separated from friends and family, sometimes within a single city, but often that separation was across countries and continents. The idea that love could be felt so strongly at such a distance, that it could traverse oceans, that you could be ’there’ for someone without being physically present, was something that felt very powerful to me at the time and inspired this song.”  

In this vein it aligns neatly with Life In Miniature’s mission to capture the emotional spirit of a complicated time. They describe the LP as: ‘A sonic photo album, a journey through three years of accelerated change that felt like a life time - leaving home, losing loved ones, falling in love - and trying to make sense of it all. Whilst it’s not necessarily a ‘pandemic record’, it does look over that period of time in which big life changes happened, and happened faster than they would have done otherwise.’   

Weaving together memories that capture both the light and shade of those turbulent years, Low Island enlisted the help of engineer Tom Archer (Little Simz, David Byrne, Slowthai), recording the album in home-made studios across rural France, Oxford, London, as well as London’s RAK Studios and Eastbourne’s Echo Zoo.

The album creative comes with artwork born out of a collaboration between Low Island, creative director and sculptor Freya Douglas Ferguson, photographer Brian Rankin and floral artist MOS, alongside a series of live videos directed by the band themselves.

The band has found champions in BBC 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne and Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, who has previously lauded the band’s ‘unbelievable…soulful, intellectual creativity.’  

In the build-up to the album’s initial release, Low Island supported Hot Chip during their triumphant run at the iconic Brixton Academy in London, as well undertaking a mainland European tour.  Rolling Stone, The Independent, Clash and Beats Per Minute have lead the charge at press. Other accolades have come from The Line of Best Fit and PASTE, alongside play-listing from Double J, Deutschlandfunk Nova, NDR 2, with further support from KCRW, Triple J and BBC Radio 1.

Paving the way for independent artists with their cathartic anthems about love, loss and life, Low Island follow in the lineage of Oxford bands Radiohead, Glass Animals and Foals: tenacious, free-spirited and fearless. 

Tucked away in their Oxford studio, UK-band Low Island have been carefully honing a unique combination of stirring electronics, explosive indie and infectious pop across 2 albums and a host of EPs. It’s a balance they’ve been devotedly fine-tuning over the years, releasing everything on their own label, Emotional Interference.

Described by the band as ‘a love letter to a wasted 20s,’ debut If You Could Have It All Again found champions in Zane Lowe (‘incredible band’) and Rolling Stone, who praised their marriage of ‘pop instinct with avant garde ambition.’ The album reached #17 in the UK Downloads Charts, featuring a song on FIFA’s soundtrack.

Follow up Life In Miniature looked over 3 years of seismic life changes - of leaving home, losing loved ones and falling in love - presenting a ‘beautiful tapestry’ of ‘lyrical gut punches and life-affirming sonic uplift’ (Gigwise), with a live schedule including their first EU headline tour and dates with Hot Chip and X Ambassadors.

Previously appearing at festivals including Glastonbury and Lollapalooza Berlin, Low Island start releasing an Extended Edition of their second album on Feb 23, accompanied by a UK tour that includes London's Lafayette, support dates with Friendly Fires and their first foray into the US with performances at Austin's SXSW.

‘Arena-ready’ Line of Best Fit
‘Their future in music is bright’ Paste