Indie four-piece · Brunswick, VIC

Low Tide Radio

Warm, slow-burning songs for tram windows and late walks home. New LP Saltwater Hours is out Fri 6 Nov. Drop the needle for a taste — each side plays an original loop built live in your browser.

Drag the tonearm onto the record

LTR · Three-band receiver

Needle upPress play, or drag the tonearm onto a band of the record.

Sound is off until you press play. Every loop is an original, generated on the spot: chord pads, bass, noise-burst drums and a little vinyl crackle.

New record · out Fri 6 Nov

Saltwater Hours

Six songs written between the Upfield line and the bay, recorded live to tape in a converted milk bar. Tap a track to put its loop on the turntable.

Low Tide Radio
Saltwater Hours
LTR-00333⅓ RPM
  • 12-inch LP · 180g
  • 6 tracks · 23 min
  • Recorded in Brunswick East

Side A

Side B

Pre-order the LP — $45 (sample price)
Gatefold sleeve, lyric insert and a download code. Classic black or mustard splatter, posted the week of release.

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Saltwater Hours tour

On the road

Launch night at home in Brunswick, then up the east coast and across to the west. Sample dates for this demo — the ticket links don't sell anything.

Merch table

Take some home

Printed in small runs in Melbourne's north. Sample prices in AUD; postage anywhere in Australia is a flat $12 (sample).

Wave tee

Heavyweight organic cotton in washed black, with the tide-and-mast print in mustard and cream.

Size
$40sample price

Saltwater Hours LP

180g vinyl, gatefold sleeve, lyric insert and download code. Posted the week of release.

Pressing
$45sample price

Crate-digger tote

Thick canvas, long handles, square enough to carry a dozen records home from the shops.

Colour
$25sample price

Your crate is empty — add something from the table.

    Liner notes

    Songs for the long way home

    “We write for the tram window, the bike path and the walk along the creek when you're not ready for the night to end.”

    The band started as a Tuesday-night jam in a Brunswick share house: two guitars, a borrowed electric piano and a drum kit held together with gaffer tape. The name came from a transistor radio someone left on a pier at low tide, still playing to nobody.

    Saltwater Hours was tracked live to tape over one long Melbourne winter in a converted milk bar in Brunswick East — fridge unplugged, tram bells left in. Most songs are first or second takes.

    Live, the songs stretch out: longer intros, a slow cover or two of songs our parents played in the car, and an encore if the room asks nicely.

    • MaeVocals, electric piano
    • TomásGuitars, lap steel
    • PriyaBass, synths
    • JonnoDrums, tape loops

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