BIRD

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 it's search for freedom and presence. Tracklisting: 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