New Music: Low Girl – Handbrake

Handbreak is the first single from Low Girls’ upcoming debut album, Is It Too Late To Freak Out?. It’s one to look forward to if you’re a fan of UK indie music at its most introspective.

It’s impossible for me to dislike music featuring a flute, even more so when it’s as light and melancholic as on Handbreak. But there’s a lot more to appreciate in the music pedigree of Low Girl. Pre-electronic EBTG comes to mind, as do the very Anglophonic sounds of The Smiths, Desperate Journalist, and Belle and Sebastian.

The lead vocals draw together the indie influences and colouring, expressing a casual and understated sense of sadness, wanting the listener to really hear the words – and the emotions behind them. Are you ready to be heartbroken?

Explains Cosgrove, “[Handbreak] came about on a gloomy November evening through Bradley, myself, and a Mac. We had just finished touring with October Drift, and I had a case of the post-tour blues.”

“Some of that angst evidently bled into the track, but lyrically Handbrake deals with themes of guilt and desperation. I think, like many of the album tracks, I’m expressing things I was too passive to articulate in the moment.”

Is It Too Late To Freak Out? is released on the 22nd of October and will be accompanied by a UK tour. For album news and ticket details, check out Low Girl on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

Low Girl is Sarah Cosgrove (on lead vocals/guitar/bass), Bradley Taylor (on guitar/bass/backing vocals), Toby Morgan (on keys), and Tom Cosgrove (on drums).