Biography
Since relocating from Georgia to Texas in the Summer of '08, the Low Lows have flowered quite suddenly into a raw & sprawling 10-player onstage spectacle. Still centered around the plaintive voice & songs of Mangham Parker, though now counting members of Polyphonic Spree, Parker & Lily, Dark Meat and South San Gabriel among their players & alumni, their highly orchestrated 5-man brass section evokes both stax/volt-style balladry and Neutral Milk cacophony. Stately, dreamlike waltzes build to explosive, gospel-tinged climaxes. A woozy country narcosis alternates with feedback drones & buried melodies that would be perfectly at home in a Velvets or Ghost show. Steel guitar, vibraphone & a slew of vintage organs and pianos round out a dense, funereal live sound, evocative of Band of Horses, Cat Power, & early My Morning Jacket.
Having released albums on Warm and Misra Records in the US and Monotreme in the European Union, these days the Low Lows tour regularly on both continents. Their live shows are loud, electric & visceral. The BBC called their 2008 live session "marvelous... absolutely beautiful... one of our favorite sessions of the year", & the magazine El Pais declared a recent Spanish performance "monstrously sad and brilliantly anachronistic... sparkling, slightly surreal rock icons that seem to have been sculpted out of white noise... like werewolves mutating, feedback drips from freshly exposed fangs... Then suddenly they return to us, playing pretty, remorseful songs about the carnage caused".
Recently the band has performed songs for Austin City Limits (Stage Left) television, & on September 13th a festival appearance at All Tomorrow's Parties will kick off a series of west-coast American tours leading to the April 2010 release of their 3rd full-length.
Discography
