The Low Lows

After the disbanding of the group Parker & Lily, P. L. Noon (aka Parker Noon) put together the haunting, lo-fi noise-drenched band The Low Lows, named after Parker & Lily's last album. Sound engineer Daniel Rickard (guitar, organ, bass) and Jeremy Wheatley (drums), both of whom had joined Parker & Lily for the final record, continued with Noon for the new band. They released Fire on the Bright Sky in September 2006, and their second full-length, Shining Violence, was released on Misra Records in 2008.

Amid revolving lineups, including their sometimes 14-piece touring band, a third album was repeatedly delayed until 2014 when Noon, by then going by the name Monk Parker, announced a rebranding of the band, also to be called Monk Parker. That band’s debut album, How the Spark Loves the Tinder, arrived in 2015.