“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.
"Mysterious Lady!" ~ Positive vibes and fun energy, and a few moments of the duo's trademark humour.
The new Lowheart EP, is a six track collection of fresh, catchy, upbeat commercial rock songs - three Pop-Rockers, two Hard-Rockers, and a Ballad - without the angst of their previous releases - replacing the anger and sorrow often present in their material, with a positive vibe and fun energy, and a few moments of the duo’s trademark humour. Five of the songs are focussed on the theme of female attraction, with the other containing a message of never giving up on one’s dreams and ambitions.
The EP kicks off with the swaggering, melodic title track, which presents as a standout radio song, with a memorable hookline and a bright, strident guitar sound. This is followed by the chunky, energetic hard rock of “Get That Girl”, which incorporates punkish elements and a soaring chorus, and the emotive country-tinged power ballad “By Your Sde”, a soaring love song. “Never Let Go” is next up, and runs on a funky, lively rhythm, and features a crisp, slightly Crowded House style sound. The bouncy “She’s My Girl” features a punchy beat, a strong forceful melody, and an infectious chorus, before the cheeky, bombastic riff-driven hard rocker “Key to Love” closes out the set in a powerful fashion.
The “Mysterious Lady!” EP is a precursor to a projected future full-length Pop-Rock album from Lowheart, which will be entitled “Keep Dreaming”, and also serves to bridge the gap before the release of their next album, the gritty Southern-Rock based “Off The Road”, which combines the duo’s Country and Hard Rock styles in an edgy set that is also their most socially lyrical release.
"Hung Over" ~ A grungey Southern-Rock ode to the morning after a night of over indulgence.
“Hung Over”, the new Lowheart single, following on from their “Drunk and Lonely” EP, continues the drinking theme to its logical conclusion, arriving at the morning-after moment of paying for the previous night’s over-indulgence and indiscretions.
“Hung Over” is in a heavier, southern-rock vein than its country-rock predecessor, in preparation for the gritty upcoming “Off The Road” album. It features a grungey guitar riff with a funky swaggering rhythm and an angsty drawling vocal delivery, with a memorable catchy hookline.
"Drunk and Lonely" ~ A Country-Rock EP that blends bar-stomping energy and cheeky, beer-soaked humor.
The “Drunk and Lonely” EP is Lowheart’s companion piece and follow-up to 2024’s Country-Rock album “Dirty Drinking Boots”, and continues in a similar musical vein to the previous album. The EP comprises of six Country-Rock Drinking Songs, and finds the duo in a light-hearted mood, with the emphasis on beer-soaked fun, and the occasional drowning of life’s sorrows. Lowheart’s tongues are planted firmly in their cheeks on several numbers.
“Drunk and Lonely” kicks off with the party-themed bar-stomper “Tear It Up Tonight’, heading into the bouncy but cruisy title track, which swaggers along like the inebriated protagonist narrating the song. The rollicking “Fake Vodka” presents perhaps the EP’s most radio-friendly track with a catchy chorus and upbeat sound, while “Drink You Outta My Mind” is the ballad of the set, with a classic drinking-to-forget-her lyrical theme.
The cheeky “Wanna Drink Beer” lopes along, fuelled by an almost-jazz-like guitar motif, while extolling the virtues of alcohol as a cure for life’s challenges, before the punchy “Decent Sip” closes out the EP, stamping its intention to drink to excess. Lowheart’s latest offering continues their Country-Rock energy, with compelling interplay between the acoustic and electric guitars, memorable melodic tunes and vocals, and a rootsy, gritty, down-home feel.
"Dirty Drinking Boots" ~ A lighthearted country-pop album with hard-edged rocky moments".
Lowheart’s seventh full studio album, “Dirty Drinking Boots”, is mainly a modern mainstream Country-Rock album, but one that also includes a few additional slight detours, which add to a great variety of sounds overall. Following on from the previous two stand-alone singles (“Piston Broke” and “Keep Coming Back”), Lowheart have produced a commercial country album, with a Country-Pop direction, that still contains several harder edged rocky moments, and also elements of rawer, more traditional country sounds such as bluegrass and folk-blues. Even Sun-era, pure fifties rock ‘n’ roll is represented (which of course had its roots in Hillbilly music), in the form of “Hell of a Week”. There are several ballads, ranging in mood from the positive to the melancholy. Lyrical themes include; fun drinking/party songs, songs of freedom and escape, rebellion, songs of entrapment and rigour, love songs, and relationship studies – at various times either narrative, universal, or personal in nature. As usual for Lowheart, in any style they tackle, guitars are prominent – in terms of both strong, melodic guitar riffs and rhythms and scintillating lead solo breaks.
The album kicks off in an upbeat fashion, with the defiant rocker “Hit The Track”, setting a tone of escape from the confines of the constraints of conventional life, a theme explored several times throughout. Several potential “radio songs” such as “She’s Better Than You”, “Hang Around”, and ”There She Goes”, present themselves, featuring catchy hooks and vibrant energy. The album contains a different version of “Keep Coming Back” to the duet featured on the previously released single. The one cover on the album, is a rocked-up version of the traditional hillbilly classic “Wreck of The Old 97”, of unknown authorship, first released in 1924 and later popularized by Johnny Cash amongst others. While the overall tone of the album is light-hearted and bouyant, there are also several darker moments, and some serious subject matter to balance the tongue-in-cheek humour on display at times. “Dirty Drinking Boots” is an album that should appeal to fans of contemporary Country-Pop, Rock, Roots/Americana, and pure Country.
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