“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.
"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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"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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