Low Island

Low Island release new album Life In Miniature on November 4th via their own label Emotional Interference - an 11-track journey through art-rock, alt-pop and electronica tinged with indie and psych elements.

Described by the Oxford quartet 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.
Life in Miniature is an exploratory exhibition - treading the line between granular, emotional introspection and Big Picture understanding and acceptance.

Each single so far, the pastel-coloured gem ‘Can’t Forget’, technicolour pop explosion ‘Kid Gloves’, the cascading ‘Forever Is Too Long’ and gently pulsating, introspective ‘Robin’ have attracted support from key media champions. Each has been played on BBC Radio 1 by Jack Saunders, and the band were recently interviewed on Chris Hawkins ’BBC 6Music show by Deb Grant, to go along with numerous plays. In the US KCRW have been fans, and Australia's Double J consistent supporters.

In the build-up to the album’s 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, while flagship placements in New Music Friday and The Indie List at Spotify have crystallised their profile.

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.

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.

It was swiftly followed by EP Just Another Dreamer, where they continued to hone their delicate balance of stirring electronics, indie rock and infectious pop, with Double J’s Zan Rowe comparing the ‘euphoric nostalgia’ of single ‘Everything Before Us’ to Caribou and Foals. This balance is one they have been devotedly fine-tuning over the years, firmly rooted in an independence that extends to everything from managing themselves, writing and producing their own music, directing their own videos and releasing everything on their own record label, Emotional Interference.

It’s an independence that is paying off. The release of both album and EP resulted in sold out gigs across the UK, a packed out London Village Underground show and an announcement of their first EU Headline Tour. It has brought them accolades from The Line of Best Fit, Rolling Stone and PASTE, alongside play-listing from Double J, Deutschlandfunk Nova, NDR 2, with further support from KCRW, Triple J and BBC Radio1. It has found them champions in BBC 6music’s Lauren Laverne and Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, who has previously lauded the band’s ‘unbelievable…soulful, intellectual creativity.’

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.