THE LOW Anthem, the American indie-folk and roots band led by Ben Knox Miller and Jeff Prystowsky, have announced a new British and Irish tour which will include a show in Galway.
The band, which also features new members Florence Grace Wallis and Bryan Minto, had talken a four year hiatus after the release of their 2011 album, Smart Flesh, returned to live duties last year and released a new album in Eyeland.
Eyeland began life as both a search for a new studio space and as a “vague and rather abstract” short story by Ben Knox Miller. The studio search led the band to The Columbus, a theatre in their native Providence, built in 1926 as a vaudeville house but closed since 2009. Its large main room, designed for maximum acoustics offered an ideal space for recording. It encouraged Knox Miller and Prystowsky to explore its sonic capabilities, experimenting with every bizarre phenomenon of sound they could find.
The resulting album, which was released through Washington Square Records, enjoyed critical acclaim with Uncut saying: "The very wonderful Eyeland finds them poised between the familiar and the less so…the delicate, Fleet Foxes-like reverie of their previous work… [and] by contrast, avant-noise experiments offer splintered ambience and jazzy skronk." The Line Of Best Fit declared it "a triumph of forward thinking", while MOJO called it "audacious [and] experimental".
The Low Anthem play the Róisín Dubh in November 6. Tickets will be available this Friday July 1 from www.roisindubh.net, the Ticket Desk at OMG Zhivago, Shop Street, and The Róisín Dubh. See also www.lowanthem.com
