Copenhagen quartet Lower have signed with Matador Records. Their eagerly anticipated debut album, Seek Warmer Climes, will see release in Australia on Friday June 13th via Matador / Remote Control.
The record sparkles with the harmonic dissonance and high-strung urgency of their underground rock forebears, but Lower – Adrian Toubro (vocals), Simon Formann (guitar), Kristian Emdal (bass) and Anton Rothstein (drums) – also channel the romance and drama of great singer-songwriters, from late-period Scott Walker to Bryan Ferry. The result is a hugely ambitious and affecting rock album that enters deeply personal and unusual sonic and topical spaces.
You don’t have to dig deep to hear how far Lower’s music sits from the traditional concerns of modern rock music. Toubro’s lyrics are finely wrought emotional dramas that, in their poetic construction and raw honesty of delivery, gesture to the music of Walker or Leonard Cohen. “Every song on the record deals in some way with personal development, be it emotional or cosmetic,” says Toubro. “How to act in different social contexts, and to acclimatize oneself into a given situation without losing face.”
They’ve shared the first single from the record, ‘Lost Weight, Perfect Skin,’ a perfect representation of the trauma inherent in “cosmetic improvement.” Stream the first single via the image below.
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LOWER – Seek Warmer Climes is released Friday 13th June via Matador Records / Remote Control
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