“Grungy rock tones reminiscent of Jet, Jagger-like edgy vocals oozing charisma, and tasty lead guitar. Vintage alt-country rock with punchy attitude" ~ Pearl Magazine
LOWHEART is an Australian Rock and Country songwriting and recording duo from Victoria’s southern bayside area, consisting of singer / songwriter / guitarist JASON LOWE, and lead-guitarist / bass player / producer SIMON HART. Lowe also plays harmonica on several songs, and Hart creates all the drum tracks, with the two of them both contributing percussion and backing vocals.
The pair have released six albums, distributed worldwide by CD Baby: The hard-rocking “Act on Impulse”, the Alt-Country set “Long Hard Road”, 2016’s “Lost and Found”, which combined the two styles in a hard-edged Country-Rock sound, the 2019 Classic Rock set “Gravel or Gold”, the flat-out Heavy Rock outing “Rock Du Jour”, and the sparse, emotive, acoustic-based “Catharsis". All six can be streamed or downloaded via Spotify, AppleMusic, Amazon, YouTube Music, Tidal, Deezer, and most other platforms. Lowheart have also released several non-album singles, including the hard-rocking new track "Take These Times", and are currently recording an EP of traditional folk songs, "Roots Run Deep", and also a new country album, "Dirty Drinking Boots". The duo have even started recording tracks for a pure Classic Rock follow-up to Gravel or Gold, called “Sleeping Dogs Bite” and another hard rock set "Hell For Leather".
Lowheart’s songs have received airplay on over a dozen Victorian radio stations, plus six in New South Wales, along with several interviews, as well as featuring on online stations in Greece, Spain, Netherlands, and the UK. They have appeared on Channel 31’s Nu Country TV, and many of their songs were featured on the soundtrack of the TV sitcom “Reps”. Their style encompasses elements of Rock, Metal, Punk, Pop, Country, Folk, and Blues, with a focus on strong melodies and hooklines, and powerful guitar and vocal performances.
"Catharsis" ~ A genre-defying blend of country, folk, blues, and acoustic rock.
The new Lowheart album "Catharsis" is a collection of moody and heartfelt songs, written over the period of a decade or more, that form a concept album of sorts - creating a story arc that follows from the divorce of the writer's parents to their own marriage breakdown and subsequent aftermath. The album features intensely personal lyrics, delivered with appropriate emotion and passion, over an acoustic-based instrumentation.
This narrative thread ties the songs together thematically, taking the listener on an emotional journey. The acoustic guitar is the dominant basis for the music, each accompanied by dramatic lead guitar solos - many of which are electric, some quite heavy and often exhilarating, and always adding an extra dimension to the tracks. The variety of sounds created in these lead guitar breaks underline the diversity and uniqueness within the songs.
The overall sound is a genre-defying blend of country, folk, blues, and acoustic rock, that could best be described as "Roots Rock", or Alt-Country - but the dark feel and moments of despair, sorrow, and anger should appeal to fans of heavy rock. The album was mostly recorded simultaneously with its predecessor, the hard-rocking "Rock Du Jour" set, and sits in direct contrast to that album musically, with a lighter, subtle touch applied throughout - underpinned by the intense feelings of angst and melancholy. "Catharsis" uses the album format as a means of artistic expression and performance, featuring experience-based story-telling, musical mood captivation, and personal purging.
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"Rock Du Jour" ~ A powerful, aggressive rock assault that never lets up!
"Rock Du Jour", has been two years in the making, and signals a return to the hard-rocking style of their debut set "Act on Impulse", while taking the heavy sounds of that album further to the extreme - not letting the foot off the pedal for a moment.
After three albums that cover the sphere from alt-country, through country-rock, to the classic rock of 2019's "Gravel or Gold", "Rock Du Jour" blends anthemic hard rock, with frenetic punk energy and metal tinges, to create a powerful, aggressive rock assault that never lets up - all driven by Lowheart's usual strong melodic sensibility, memorable hooks, and crunching guitar riffs. Lowheart's pure hard rock direction on this album was heralded by the "Opportunity Lost" single - a stand-alone release that preceded the album's arrival, at the beginning of 2021.
The punchy sound of "Rock Du Jour" aims to inject some gutsy fire-and-balls back into Australian Rock, and wears its hard rock influences proudly on its sleeve.
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