Low Island

Earlier this summer Oxford electronic-pop quartet Low Island announced their sophomore album Life In Miniature for November 4th via their own label Emotional Interference. Newly confirmed to support Hot Chip at the iconic Brixton Academy on September 24th, the band will first reveal the second single from their upcoming record on September 1st - ‘Kid Gloves’ a technicolor pop-explosion that follows the languid-groover ‘Can’t Forget’.

Described by the band as a ‘sonic photo album; a journey through three years of accelerated change that felt like a lifetime,’ Life in Miniature promises to be an exploratory exhibition - treading the line between granular, emotional introspection and Big Picture understanding and acceptance.

Trading sugary pop hooks with emotive falsetto-adorned verses and precise electronic production, ‘Kid Gloves’ is a snapshot of Low Island in microcosm and arrives as the follow-up to lead single ‘Can’t Forget’, having already attracted support from key press champions (Rolling Stone, Clash), and BBC Radio 1 (Jack Saunders) and BBC 6 Music (Chris Hawkins) airplay.

Speaking ahead of their latest release, the group explained: “‘Kid Gloves’ is a love song to childhood and to ‘home’, whatever or wherever that may be. Like so much of the new record, it’s about life’s pushes and pulls: how leaving home can mark a new and exciting chapter in our lives, but necessarily involves leaving a part of our childhood behind; how falling in love can make us feel more distant from our friends, or how just generally we are so often confronted with situations that pull our emotions in opposing directions. I’m obsessed with this line in Future Islands’ ‘Seasons’ where Sam T Herring says ‘when people change, they gain a piece, but they lose one too.’ There is both such a cruelty and beauty in that, and Kid Gloves tries to capture that feeling and provide reassurance: home is there. you are still you. there’s still time. life is good”.

As with all of the album creative, the track 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 live video directed by the band themselves.

Their sophomore album follows acclaimed debut If You Could Have It All Again, an album that took stock of a 20s filled with false-starts, heartbreak and cyclical conflict, carving a path towards a better decade to come. It reached #17 in the UK Official Downloads Chart and #5 in the UK Independent Chart.