Indie darlings Low Girl are back with their new single "Overgrown," a glistening glimpse at what's to come from their highly anticipated debut album "Is It Too Late To Freak Out?" The track was given its debut earlier this week on BBC 6 Music with Steve Lamacq and is now officially out on AWAL, furthering the band's trajectory as one of the UK's most buzzed-about indie acts.
After the fan-favourite lead singles "Handbrake" and "No Reasons", "Overgrown" sees the band at their most intimate yet. From the opening note, silky guitar lines entwine smoothly with pop-leaning vocals, a track that's both dreamy and grounded, introspective yet impossibly catchy. There's a feeling of thoughtful experimentation here. Low Girl isn't chasing trends as much as they're shaping a sound that seems intimate but also infinite.
Written between Bedford and the Yorkshire countryside, the track demonstrates the band's dedication to variety. It nods to the atmospheric dream-pop textures of the Canadian act Alvvays. Still, it carries with it the emotional undercurrents of the band's guitarist, Bradley Taylor's lifelong love of emo. It's a mix that makes "Overgrown" sound both comfortingly familiar and pleasantly unclassifiable, a testament to the band's craftsmanship and collaborative spirit. "Overgrown" suggests the kind of themes of connection, determination, and growth that run through "Is It Too Late To Freak Out?" Every guitar strum and verse on the music feels like a band that has suffered and turned at least some of that suffering into something beautiful, playful, and heartfelt.
On "Overgrown" Low Girl, we hear bloom in full flower, a majestic tie of introspection and indie-pop charm, whetting the appetite for the whole album on October 24th. It's a song that bears repeated listens, and confirms the band as a nuanced voice in modern indie.