Low Island

'Pop instinct with avant-garde ambition' Rolling Stone 

‘Arena-ready’ The Line of Best Fit  | 'Their future in music is bright' PASTE 

‘Truly engrossing’ Gigwise | 'Gripping' Record Collector 

'Original atmospheric electronic sound' The i  | 'Fast-rising art rockers' The Daily Star

Low Island release new single ‘Robin’ on today as the final preview of upcoming sophomore album Life In Miniature - out November 4th via their own label Emotional Interference. 

Described by the Oxford quartet 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. 

‘Robin’ is a built on a gently pulsating electronic bed, on which vocalist Carlos Posada deliverers an airy vocal performance. It marries the quartet’s uncanny ability to augment experimentation with pop-sensibility. There’s also a thematically apt tale of sonic serendipity around the track’s genus, as Carlos explains: 

"‘Robin’ is named after my late grandfather. Where our previous single ‘Forever Is Too Long’ made some of his words part of the song, ‘Robin’ takes his things: an old recording of my great grandmother and great aunt that I found at the bottom of a chest of drawers in his living room frames the track, and a sample of his piano features in the bridge.  

The theme of memory runs throughout a lot of our music; I am fascinated by the idea that it is something we are almost entirely shaped by, yet really have no control over in terms of the memories we keep and those we leave behind. Flitting through the arbitrary recollections that shape us was one of the main inspirations for Life In Miniature, and I think ‘Robin’ is one of the best examples of that on the album.”  

It follows singles ‘Can’t Forget’, ‘Kid Gloves’ and 'Forever Is Too Long' having already attracted support from key press champions (Rolling Stone, Clash), and BBC Radio 1 (Jack Saunders) and BBC 6 Music (Chris Hawkins) airplay. 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. 

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.  

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 Radio 1. 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.