Little Grandad - Sleepwalking / Unmasked Little Grandad

Debut singles "Sleepwalking" and "Unmasked" from London’s Little Grandad. Formed in 2025, their songs sound like a sort of Venn diagram of rust-belt Americana, Brooklyn-informed slacker-rock, and warm yet ramshackle British indie guitar rock. It also sounds nothing like those things. It’s chaotic, teeters on the brink of collapse, but somehow hangs together. It’s properly exciting because you can’t put your finger on what it is, and neither can they. 

Hand stamped and hand numbered limited edition of 1000, pressed on black vinyl.

Jack Lower and Harry Lower, the brothers at the beating heart of London’s latest most-likely-to band Little Grandad, didn’t have some grand masterplan to form a band together while growing up. They barely acknowledged each other half the time. Jack couldn’t play an instrument, and Harry kept his songs to himself.

It wasn’t until they both found themselves back home after university with barely a dime between them that Harry, semi-reluctantly, shared some of his songs with his music-obsessed brother. Harry was writing about everything and nothing: real London people, real London things, drawing inspiration from whatever he saw, read or picked up along the way.

At the beginning of 2025, they met guitarist, trumpet player and fellow songwriter Ned Ashcroft at an open mic night in Haggerston. Alongside drummer Jimmy Brennan, an old friend of Jack’s who also worked as a studio engineer, the four quickly solidified into a proper unit.

Initially bonded through a mutual love of Chet Baker, though plenty of other bands too, the group spent much of their early time together hanging around London grassroots venues they had all grown up in, especially The Windmill in Brixton. If that sounds cliché, it’s because it is, but they wanted to meet people, make friends and figure out what everyone else was doing, forming strong opinions about who they rated and who they didn’t.

Jack loved all of that. He even briefly moonlighted as a tour manager for another new “Windmill band” to make ends meet. Harry, on the other hand, was far less interested in the scene surrounding it all. But when Little Grandad first stepped on stage together in the summer, it immediately felt natural, almost like playing in a living room among friends, and they tore the roof off the place.

They’ve been on the road almost ever since.