Low Island - Bird [Red LP]

Format: LP, Picture Sleeve
Catalogue No.: EILP10
Barcode: 9507711931971
Release Date: 30 May 2025
Genre: Electronica

A1: only you
A2: spit it out
A3: this is water
A4: once in a while
A5: great dream
B1: follow your direction
B2: machine lover
B3: little bird
B4: mind’s eye
B5: stop the morning traffic
 
Oxford band Low Island announce their new album, bird, produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor on label Emotional Interference. Recorded at the legendary La Frette Studios,  bird  is an album as brash as it is tender, exploring the struggle to find freedom and presence in an increasingly automated world.

The result is an album where Jay’s guitars and synths screech with unhinged anger as much as they wail with anguish; Lively’s bass dances frantically whilst swimming underneath the songs with an effortless beauty; Higginbottom’s drums are as deft as they are punishing; Posada’s voice as frail as it is resilient. 

These emotional polarities speak to the heart of bird: a coming to terms with the overwhelming breadth of experience in the modern world, trapped as we are in our own bodies. How do we act in the face of this? Do we try to reach beyond ourselves? Wish to be saved or transformed? Retreat inwards? Or embrace things as they are? These are the questions that haunt bird in its search for freedom and presence.