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

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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

Keep your sparkle in the pain

Circus Blues

Winter

Born into a Spider

Doubts

Eagle

Interlude: Igloo

Bloodhound

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


Dive and Slide into the Blue LP

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