Low Low formed in March 2004 when Kelly Dyson met Natalia Brightmore in the George over a pint, two days after he’d split from his long-time partner and moved from Carlisle to Buxton with a handful of songs. The pair clicked and work began on turning Kelly’s rough acoustic songs into rough acoustic songs with a female harmony. The album was quite a sparse thing for the main part, though Ellis Dyson expanded a few tracks with drums and electric guitars. The process from there was pretty quick – the album was polished (to Low Low’s standards) within a few months was released on the Birds and the Rodents Label (UK).

On their self-titled debut, through their earnest, stripped-down approach to song writing, Low Low tap into your head and heart before you’ve even noticed; and by then it’s too late to turn back (not that you’d want to anyway). The vulnerability and undeniable necessity of love, loss, heartache and hopefulness abounds in each affected lyric, and is further evoked byevery subtle bend and pull.

“As acoustic documents of the breakdown of a long-term relationships go, this is up there. Recorded lo-fi style – in a bedroom apparently – this affecting release combines breathless harmonies and fragile tunes to achieve a strange warmth. Also makes Belle & Sebastian sound like Motorhead.” – The Crack

“Rooted firmly in the world of low/no-fi folk, this is a charming record that recalls the same juxtaposition of fragility and strength of character that suffused the early Elliott Smith albums.” – Tangents

Release date: February 2005
Label: Other Electricities/The Birds and the Rodents