Low Light Listening Lounge, Scotland On Sunday, 9 October 2022
Low Light Listening Lounge | Off Axis Artist of the Week in Scotland On Sunday, 9 October 2022
Words by Derick Mackinnon and Olaf Furniss. Read on Scotsman.com
Hailing from Dingwall and the Isle of Skye, Ewen White and Alasdair Mackenzie are Low Light Listening Lounge, an excellent duo with folk, electronic and alternative influences including Frightened Rabbit, Vampire Weekend and LCD Soundsystem.
The childhood friends are now based in Glasgow where Mackenzie is studying Product Design at Strathclyde University and White works at a whistle workshop (MK Whistles) and part-time at GloWorm Recording Studio, where their rather epic EP was part-recorded.
Relative newcomers to the music scene, they’ve so far released three singles, Catch You Dead in February this year and most recently honest g and Party Ragz; a driving, rhythmic, catchy gem with an undeniably Frightened Rabbit feel.
They’ve been championed by Roddy Hart on BBC Radio Scotland, the RAPAL team on BBC Radio nan Gàidheal, The Skinny, Underground Sounds and Rave Child. Lauren MacDonald and Donald Barker join them on the record and will complete their live lineup. Visit https://www.lowlll.com/ for information on upcoming releases and gig announcements
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