Ten things you need to know about Low Duo:
1. Low Duo are us two brothers Adam (guitar) and Leigh Greenwood (vocals) from Sheffield, England. 
2. We only use two layers when recording and playing live - typically just a guitar and vocals.
3. We’ve been accurately described as "stereo Nick Drakes or the Smiths if they were pared down to a pair and pruned their repertoire so that it only comprised the baleful, basic likes of Back to the Old House and This Night Has Opened My Eyes" <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/15/new-band-low-duo">The Guardian</a>, New Band of the Day. 986).
4. We use a piggy-bank to succumb impressionable gig-goers to buy CDs with 'pay you what you think it's worth' offer. It's funded 3 EP's and 1 album so far, but we still haven’t saved enough for new suits….
5. In March 2013, a new film by erotic boob-experts The Suicide Girls team will air on USA TV network Showtime, featuring our previous single 'No Happier'. <a href="http://vimeo.com/52042962">See the trailer</a>
6. We’ve opened stages for global artists such as Anna Calvi, Courtney Pine, Ian McCulloch (Echo and the Bunnymen), Abigail Washburn and The Smoke Fairies. Obviously, these are highlights…
7. In addition to writing miserable lyrics, Leigh designs all the 'child-like'/badly drawn artwork and shoots all of our ‘homemade’ performance videos. <a href="http://youtu.be/YPZnCrzU5OU">Watch Eagle</a>
8. Though it was Adam who created the video to their new single 'Born into a Spider' using a pair of scissors, a laptop screen and intricate paper cut-outs of the band. <a href="http://youtu.be/CIcFEi1JJts">Check it out</a>
9. Their new LP is about "putting yourself back-together again". Leigh sings this from experience of a messy break-up; Adam strums from experience of a broken thumb incident that kO'd Low Duo for 3 months! Either way, its dark.
10. The new LP 'Dive and Slide into the Blue LP' is a collection of twisted, grungy and folky laments all of which can be purchased as a 'pay what you think it's going to be worth' price exclusively from www.lowduo.co.uk

Ends

All the lyrics:

Keep your sparkle in the pain
 
Half dead like old silhouettes, or cold pirouettes
With paper girls
Don’t let them linger, you’ll burn your fingers
It’s a cruel world
 
Keep your sparkle in the pain
Cos when you have lost love once, it won’t come round again for a while
Tear your sorrow from the blame
Cos when you’ve found your feet once, you can find them again and then
Again and then again

You stand, a man in limbo, behind the window
The curtains drawn, morning to dawn
Put on a plaster, you’ll heal faster
Faster than a swarm, of bees in a storm

Keep your sparkle in the pain
Cos when you have lost love once, it won’t come round again for a while
Tear your sorrow from the blame
Cos when you’ve found your feet once, you can find them again in a while

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Circus blues
 
By the derelict bridge there once lived a house
With a pretty girl who took me out
To play at the fair
 
In the chaos and lights of the litterpick fields
We were terrified of the big wheel
But nobody cared
 
Circus stripes, blur the eyes
The fire keeps us warm
Stood in line, then back to mine
You're sweet without the corn
 
Blue, dive and slide into the blue
 
On the top of the hill I took the wrong way
Now my body hurts when I hear you say
That I was so cruel
 
Memory is select so how can you choose
To forget all that I made with you?
You’re making me blue
 
Circus stripes, blur the eyes
The fire keeps us warm
Stood in line, then back to mine
You're sweet without the corn
 
Blue, dive and slide into the blue 
Blue, dive and slide into the blue
Blue, blue, blue, now I’ll be never be with you
Blue, blue, blue, blue


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Winter
 
On a bleak, bitter winters day I stood with a smile
As our weak withered hands did strain to touch for a while
 
And as the smoke poured from her mouth
I watched her pretty feet slide in the rain
But in a battle of self-doubt
The lines were drawn and she won’t ever change
 
As the frost, slowly bites her lips we kiss in the white
Of the lost, lonely ice that grips our hands in delight
 
And as the smoke poured from her mouth
I watched her pretty feet slide in the rain
But in a battle of self-doubt
The lines were drawn and she won’t ever change

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Born into a spider

I was born into a spider
A shadow on a ledge
In pain, cold rain
I crawl up through your drain
Unsteady on my legs
 
As someone started screaming
The smoke began to spray
Can't breathe, I heave
I watch you die and I grieve
And then I rush and run away
 
Long legged lover
All eight legs inside my bed
There'll be no others
My spider heart has been torn apart
 
I saw your body lying
Just crumpled in a heap
Two flies, goodbyes
There was a smirk in their eyes
And then I lost you to your sleep
 
Long legged lover
All eight legs inside my bed
There'll be no others
My spider heart has been torn apart
 
You were my perfect spider
I'd lose eight legs to find you x3

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Doubts

There’s water in her eyes 
In a minute she will cry and then you’ll almost drown
She wants to settle down but a doubt is a doubt
 
It’s rushing through her heart
Like a wave and when it starts you’ll be washed away
Nothing is here to stay when a doubt is a doubt
 
Ooooh doubts. Ooooh doubts. Ooooh doubts.

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Eagle
 
Like an eagle that flies
By a damaged wing
Your feathers have dried
So I’ll stop circling
And I’ll swoop
Slow motion loop
 
Though we’re not flying
We’re still smiling, when we pick birds off the floor
But when they look and fly away
Then we start crying and we keep crying
Until we can’t cry anymore
 
Body ravaged but I’m
Strong enough to slay
Savage beacon of light
Piercing my prey
And with my beak
Tear bones from meat
 
Though we’re not flying
We’re still smiling, when we pick birds off the floor
But when they look and cry away
Then we start flying and we keep flying
Until we can’t fly anymore

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Bloodhound
 
This bloodhound and the scent upon your neck
On the ground, it’s not over, it’s not happened yet
 
Sometimes a love can come easy
Sometimes it can kick you in your gut
Sometimes you’re trying to feel things
Sometimes two lovers just fall out of love
 
Oooooh, oooooh tonight
Oooooh, oooooh tonight
 
Don’t need sound, I’ll track you with my nose
And sniff you out, I’ve not found you, but I’m getting close
 
Sometimes a love can come easy
Sometimes it can kick you in your gut
Sometimes you’re trying to feel things
Sometimes two lovers just fall out of love
 
Oooooh, oooooh
Oooooh, oooooh
Oooooh, oooooh
Oooooh, oooooh

Dive and Slide into the Blue LP

LOW DUO – The EP of Fear and Failure
Download and CD release date: 16/05/2011
Free taster - ‘No Happier’ download: 02/05/2011 

Fresh from support slots with Anna Calvi and after their debut ‘The EP of Hope and Despair’ led to them being named Guardian ‘new band of the day’, won over Tom Robinson on BBC 6Music and earned a clutch of 5/5 reviews, Sheffield’s Greenwood brothers Low Duo return with their second EP in only five months.

Since forming in August 2010 the prolific pair have been winning hearts nationwide with their unique brand of darkly emotive minimalist guitar pop – all of which is written and performed with just one guitar and one voice.

“It’s pretty intense. Low Duo give fresh lustre to that overworked notion of the darkly powerful.”
Paul Lester, The Guardian ‘new band of the day’
"A distinctive emotional atmosphere I haven't heard since the first dEUS album - a high, high compliment."
Tom Robinson, BBC 6Music
5/5 "The most beautiful body of music to come out of Sheffield this generation. No exaggeration. Truly magnificent songwriters."
Will Hitchmough, Counterfeit Magazine
“Ace minimalist eerie dark duo that have a repertoire of absolute tear jerkers that will rip the heart clean out of your rib cage” 
Eighth Word Murder Club
"8/10 - Beautiful and delicate, there's magic in the space between the notes and in Leigh's haunting and cracked yet powerful voice. Truly magnificent."
Whisperin' and Hollerin'

Staying true to Low Duo’s original vision, ‘The EP of Fear and Failure’ is another stripped back affair that refuses to incorporate anything more than guitar and voice. The quality of the songwriting is at the forefront, as is the deep connection between Adam’s haunting guitar lines and Leigh’s versatile voice and subtle poetic lyrics.

The brothers have learned from their debut though and this second installment is darker, denser and more purposeful. 

The five song EP is available as a lovingly made limited edition CD package or as a digital download and the brothers are inviting people to spend what they can afford. The opening track, No Happier, is available as a FREE download.
Visit www.lowduo.co.uk now to preorder.

ENDS
Editors Notes
For more information on Low Duo visit www.lowduo.co.uk, www.myspace.com/lowduo or www.facebook.com/lowduo  

To contact the band email lowduo@live.co.uk or call 07940 582491. 


The EP of Fear and Failure

The EP of Hope and Despair

The second EP in six months from new Sheffield outfit Low Duo, purveyors of darkly emotive minimalist guitar pop. Each song contains only voice and guitar.

Low Duo - No Happier

Low Duo - The Poppy Seeds

Low Duo - Kiss in the Lamplights

Low Duo - Silly Boy

Low Duo - Of All the Girls

Low Duo - Like a Fly

Low Duo - I Want To Die on The Moon

Low Duo - House on the Hill

Low Duo - Fifteen Years

Low Duo - It Was You and Me

LOW DUO – 'Everything Was Blurred EP'
Download and CD release date: 14 April 2014
Free taster - ‘‘Weather Send Me Home’ download date: 10 March 2014

Sheffield’s saddest siblings Low Duo kick off 2014 with the release of their fifth recording ‘The EP of Rumours and Reality’ (released April 14 on People Are Strange Records) and while it’s clear they haven’t cheered up at all, the songs on here will at least make their fans happy.

In a little over three years Low Duo have become one of Sheffield’s most widely acclaimed bands. Their strict one voice/one musical instrument formula has won them consistent, ongoing support from the likes of The Guardian, Drowned In Sound, BBC 6Music and XFM, while songs from their last two releases have been licensed to appear in SuicideGirls films. The brothers have been hailed for producing “the most beautiful body of music to come out of Sheffield in this generation.”

Continuing to experiment within their own minimalist genre, Low Duo’s fifth release is a concept record that mixes scuzzy guitar songs and spoken word poetry to detail the story of a crumbling relationship where suspicions and rumours give way to reality in the most heartbreaking way possible.

Starting with an ominous and anonymous telephone call, the EP’s narrator walks us through a journey of gossiping work colleagues, blank eyed denials and a violent conclusion in less than 15 minutes.
The six track EP is available as a lovingly made limited edition CD package or as a digital download and the brothers are inviting people to spend what they can afford. The spoken word track, Weather Send Me Home, is available as a FREE download.
Visit www.lowduo.co.uk now to pre-order.

-ENDS-
Editors Notes


Weather Send Me Home

LOW DUO – 'Everything Was Blurred EP'
Download and CD release date: 14 April 2014
Free taster - ‘‘Weather Send Me Home” download date: 10 March 2014

Sheffield’s saddest siblings Low Duo kick off 2014 with the release of their fifth recording ‘Everything Was Blurred EP’ (released April 14 on People Are Strange Records) and while it’s clear they haven’t cheered up at all, the songs on here will at least make their fans happy.

In a little over three years Low Duo have become one of Sheffield’s most widely acclaimed bands. Their strict one voice/one musical instrument formula has won them consistent, ongoing support from the likes of The Guardian, Drowned In Sound, BBC 6Music and XFM, while songs from their last two releases have been licensed to appear in SuicideGirls films. The brothers have been hailed for producing “the most beautiful body of music to come out of Sheffield in this generation.”

Continuing to experiment within their own minimalist genre, Low Duo’s fifth release is a concept record that mixes scuzzy guitar songs and spoken word poetry to detail the story of a crumbling relationship where suspicions and rumours give way to reality in the most heartbreaking way possible.

Starting with an ominous and anonymous telephone call, the EP’s narrator walks us through a journey of gossiping work colleagues, blank eyed denials and a violent conclusion in less than 15 minutes.

While heavier than recent offerings, ‘Everything was blurred’ stays true to Low Duo’s original vision.

The six track EP is available as a lovingly made limited edition CD package or as a digital download and the brothers are inviting people to spend what they can afford. The spoken word track, Weather Send Me Home, is available as a FREE download.
Visit www.lowduo.co.uk now to pre-order.

-ENDS-
Editors Notes
For more Low Duo music or information visit:
www.lowduo.co.uk
www.soundcloud.com/lowduo
www.youtube.com/lowduo
www.facebook.com/lowduo
www.twitter.com/lowduo
To contact the band please email lowduo@live.co.uk 


Who?

LOW DUO – Everything Was Blurred EP
Download and CD release date: 14 April 2014
Free taster - ‘‘Weather Send Me Home’ download date: 21 March 2014

Sheffield’s saddest siblings Low Duo kick off 2014 with the release of their fifth recording ‘Everything Was Blurred EP’ (released 14 April on People Are Strange Records) and while it’s clear they haven’t cheered up at all, the songs on here will at least make their fans happy.

In a little over three years Low Duo have become one of Sheffield’s most widely acclaimed bands. Their strict one voice/one musical instrument formula has won them consistent, ongoing support from the likes of The Guardian, Drowned In Sound, BBC 6Music and XFM, while songs from their last two releases have been licensed to appear in SuicideGirls films. The brothers have been hailed for producing “the most beautiful body of music to come out of Sheffield in this generation.”

Continuing to experiment within their own minimalist genre, Low Duo’s fifth release is a concept record that mixes scuzzy guitar songs and spoken word poetry to detail the story of a crumbling relationship where suspicions and rumours give way to reality in the most heartbreaking way possible.

Starting with an ominous and anonymous telephone call, the EP’s narrator walks us through a journey of gossiping work colleagues, blank eyed denials and a violent conclusion in less than 15 minutes.

While heavier than recent offerings, ‘Everything Was Blurred EP’ stays true to Low Duo’s original vision, refusing to incorporate anything more than guitar and voice and focusing on the emotion of the songs above all else. 

The six track EP is available to buy from Low Duo's Bandcamp page (www.lowduo.co.uk) as a lovingly made limited edition CD package or as a digital download and the brothers are inviting people to spend what they can afford. The release will also be available on all major online stores and digital services including iTunes and Spotify.

The spoken word track, Weather Send Me Home, is available as a FREE download.
Visit www.lowduo.co.uk now to pre-order.

-ENDS-

For more information please email peoplearestrangerecords@outlook.com.

Editors Notes
For more Low Duo music or information visit:
www.lowduo.co.uk
www.soundcloud.com/lowduo
www.youtube.com/lowduo
www.facebook.com/lowduo
www.twitter.com/lowduo
To contact the band please email lowduo@live.co.uk.


If I Could Have Total Control of Everything You Do

LOW DUO – Everything Was Blurred EP
Download and CD release date: 14 April 2014
Free taster - ‘‘Weather Send Me Home’ download date: 21 March 2014

Sheffield’s saddest siblings Low Duo kick off 2014 with the release of their fifth recording ‘Everything Was Blurred EP’ (released 14 April on People Are Strange Records) and while it’s clear they haven’t cheered up at all, the songs on here will at least make their fans happy.

In a little over three years Low Duo have become one of Sheffield’s most widely acclaimed bands. Their strict one voice/one musical instrument formula has won them consistent, ongoing support from the likes of The Guardian, Drowned In Sound, BBC 6Music and XFM, while songs from their last two releases have been licensed to appear in SuicideGirls films. The brothers have been hailed for producing “the most beautiful body of music to come out of Sheffield in this generation.”

Continuing to experiment within their own minimalist genre, Low Duo’s fifth release is a concept record that mixes scuzzy guitar songs and spoken word poetry to detail the story of a crumbling relationship where suspicions and rumours give way to reality in the most heartbreaking way possible.

Starting with an ominous and anonymous telephone call, the EP’s narrator walks us through a journey of gossiping work colleagues, blank eyed denials and a violent conclusion in less than 15 minutes.

While heavier than recent offerings, ‘Everything Was Blurred EP’ stays true to Low Duo’s original vision, refusing to incorporate anything more than guitar and voice and focusing on the emotion of the songs above all else. 

The six track EP is available to buy from Low Duo's Bandcamp page (www.lowduo.co.uk) as a lovingly made limited edition CD package or as a digital download and the brothers are inviting people to spend what they can afford. The release will also be available on all major online stores and digital services including iTunes and Spotify.

The spoken word track, Weather Send Me Home, is available as a FREE download.
Visit www.lowduo.co.uk now to pre-order.

-ENDS-

For more information please email peoplearestrangerecords@outlook.com.

Editors Notes
For more Low Duo music or information visit:
www.lowduo.co.uk
www.soundcloud.com/lowduo
www.youtube.com/lowduo
www.facebook.com/lowduo
www.twitter.com/lowduo
To contact the band please email lowduo@live.co.uk or call 07940 582491.


Hollow Eyes

LOW DUO – 'Everything Was Blurred EP'
Download and CD release date: 14 April 2014
Free taster - ‘‘Weather Send Me Home” download date: 10 March 2014

Sheffield’s saddest siblings Low Duo kick off 2014 with the release of their fifth recording ‘Everything Was Blurred EP’ (released April 14 on People Are Strange Records) and while it’s clear they haven’t cheered up at all, the songs on here will at least make their fans happy.

In a little over three years Low Duo have become one of Sheffield’s most widely acclaimed bands. Their strict one voice/one musical instrument formula has won them consistent, ongoing support from the likes of The Guardian, Drowned In Sound, BBC 6Music and XFM, while songs from their last two releases have been licensed to appear in SuicideGirls films. The brothers have been hailed for producing “the most beautiful body of music to come out of Sheffield in this generation.”

Continuing to experiment within their own minimalist genre, Low Duo’s fifth release is a concept record that mixes scuzzy guitar songs and spoken word poetry to detail the story of a crumbling relationship where suspicions and rumours give way to reality in the most heartbreaking way possible.

Starting with an ominous and anonymous telephone call, the EP’s narrator walks us through a journey of gossiping work colleagues, blank eyed denials and a violent conclusion in less than 15 minutes.

While heavier than recent offerings, ‘The EP of Rumours and Reality’ stays true to Low Duo’s original vision.

The six track EP is available as a lovingly made limited edition CD package or as a digital download and the brothers are inviting people to spend what they can afford. The spoken word track, Weather Send Me Home, is available as a FREE download.
Visit www.lowduo.co.uk now to pre-order.

-ENDS-
Editors Notes
For more Low Duo music or information visit:
www.lowduo.co.uk
@lowduo
www.youtube.com/lowduo
www.facebook.com/lowduo
www.twitter.com/lowduo
To contact the band please email lowduo@live.co.uk or call 07940 582491


Keys Inside The Door

Keep your sparkle in the pain

Circus Blues

Winter

Born into a Spider

Doubts

Low Duo are two brothers from Sheffield who write darkly emotive minimalist guitar music, with just one voice and one musical instrument.



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