Founded 2006 in Athens Georgia, the Low Lows were named after the final release of NYC noise-pop trio Parker & Lily. The initial lineup consisted of P&L alumni Mangham Parker, Daniel Rickard and Jeremy Wheatley. As a trio they released two albums (Fire On The Bright Sky, 2006; and Shining Violence, 2008) and toured extensively, mostly in the U.K. and on the European continent.

In the Summer of 2008 the Low Lows relocated from Georgia to Austin Texas, simultaneously flowering quite suddenly into a sprawling ten-player onstage spectacle. Still centered around the plaintive voice & songs of Mangham Parker, now vibraphone, steel guitar and a slew of vintage organs and pianos round out a dense, funereal live sound evocative of Band of Horses & early My Morning Jacket. Their intricately orchestrated four-man brass section evokes both stax/volt- style balladry and Neutral Milk cacophony. Stately, dreamlike waltzes build to explosive, gospel-tinged climaxes, & a woozy country narcosis kin to Skygreen Leopards or Phosphorescent alternates with Velvets- style feedback drones & buried noise melodies.

Having released albums on Warm and Misra Records in the US and Monotreme in the European Union, these days the Low Lows tour regularly on both continents. Their live shows are loud, electric & visceral. The BBC called their 2008 live session "marvelous... absolutely beautiful... one of our favorite sessions of the year", & the magazine El Pais declared a recent Spanish performance "monstrously sad and brilliantly anachronistic... sparkling, slightly surreal rock icons that seem to have been sculpted out of white noise...like werewolves mutating, feedback drips from freshly exposed fangs... Then suddenly they return to us, playing pretty, remorseful songs about the carnage caused".

Recently the band has performed songs for Austin City Limits (Stage Left) television & at the 2009 Flaming Lips- curated All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in New York. Their third album "Gaudy Frame" is due for release in early 2011.