Recorded, produced and engineered by the band at their makeshift studio in rural France, the album sees the band fully taking the reins over their own destiny, and becoming a DIY machine. It will be released on their own label Emotional Interference on April 16th. Pre-order it here.
Describing the album as the product of "ten years of trying to make things work – in music, but also in life," lead vocalist Carlos Posada recounts "a litany of romantic disasters that have coloured the last ten years of my life". It sees him inhabiting a loose character that looks back at the last decade, and says – in his words – "Have I just really fucked this up? Have I made a royal mess of the last ten years?
This reference to a character teases at the literary and pop-culture touchstones for the record. Wistful protagonists caught in a constant nostalgia, perpetually feeling their best days are behind them - think Watanabe in Norwegian Wood, Malcolm from A Little Life, Emma from People, Places, Things, Holden from Catcher In The Rye.
Whilst the sorrow of a lost twenties is evident in a lot of the album there’s hope among the chaos and the loss too. Playing with light and shade sonically, visually and thematically, Low Island succinctly express how one can’t exist without the other, and learn to embrace the contrast.
Check out the record's tracklist and take a listen to their new single "Feel Young Again", below
If You Could Have It All Again Tracklist:
01. Hey man,
02. What Do You Stand For
04. Don't Let The Light In (Reprise)
05. In Your Arms
06. Who's Having The Greatest Time?
07. Feel Young Again
08. I Do It For You
09. Momentary
10. Spaces Closing In
11. What The Hell (are you gonna do now?)
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