As they zig-zag across the country on their farewell tour, homegrown indie favourites Loon Lake have now announced the details of what will be their last ever album, Low Res, a collection of the band’s final recordings.

Set for release on 21st October and put together over a year of “fun, passionate, and back-to-basics sessions”, Low Res encapsulates six years of music for Loon Lake and presents their biggest and most honest tracks to date.

“We all met at a pub in North Melbourne and we laid it all out on the table,” says Loon Lake frontman Sam Nolan. “We all decided that even though we knew we were probably not going to stay in the band for much longer, we wanted to do one more album.”

“We wanted to do it our way and we made a pact that night. No over thinking, no synths, all recording must be live. We decided to go right back to the beginning and just have fun with it. Write songs purely by instinct. Somehow we had lost sight of it along the way.”

“We went about making an album without thinking. We booked our old engineer Robin Mae and our old studio Woodstock in Melbourne, and worked with Tony Buchen to mix the record.”

“We produced it ourselves and recorded it slowly over several weekends, whenever we had time really, until we thought we were ready and had the songs we wanted, if it took longer, it took longer.”

“And the songs just came out of no where. It was the best fun and most productive and positive we had been as a band in 4 or 5 years. We were working on Low Res long before we decided we were going to finish up as a band.”

“So it’s not some throw away marketing idea to sell tickets for the tour. For us. it’s about showing our fans that we are a real and no bullshit band. It’s about being able to look back and be proud of something and we feel that this album really sums us up.”

The band have decided to let fans pay whatever they want for Low Res and are encouraging people to rip it, copy it, sell it, and share it. It will even drop automatically, for free, into the inboxes of those who bought tickets to their farewell tour.

“We just want people to hear it. It’s our way of saying thanks to all the fans for such great support. Everything about this album is exactly how we wanted it, it’s as real as we are and we are super fucking proud of it.”

“I think all music we have ever put out, this is the one we know we are totally happy with as a band. If no one else likes it, it won’t worry us one bit.”

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