- Lowheart
- Apr 26, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 12, 2020
Lowheart's hard rocking new album "Rock Du Jour" is close to completion, and scheduled for worldwide release, on Rat Wheel Records, in the third quarter of 2020. "Rock Du Jour" is Lowheart's heaviest release yet, taking up where their 2015 debut set "Act On Impulse" left off, and upping the ante even further - with an aggressive feel, incorporating hard rock, punk, and metal influences. The album is brimming with punchy, fist-pumping anthems - strong on memorable hooks, driving riffs, searing guitar solos, and fiery vocals.
Here's a taste of what's to come!
The album's track list has been finalised, and is as follows:
Go To Hell
Redback
Blow My Time
Gun To My Head
Get Out Of My Way
Violence In Your Blood
I Don't Know Who You Are
Run For The Law
Suckerpunch
Down Town
Do What You Want
Skyscraper
Waste Of Space
The Only Thing
Recorded simultaneously with "Rock Du Jour" is a second new album, entitled "The Catharsis Files", which is in a completely different style and vein altogether. If "Rock Du Jour" takes the hard-edged rock of "Act on Impulse" to its extreme, then "Catharsis" takes the stripped-back country-tinged and rootsy folk sounds on "Long Hard Hard" (2015) to ITS extreme. "Catharsis" features sparse, raw arrangements, with intensely personal and emotional lyrics, creating as concept albums of sorts, around the theme of relationship breakdown. The songs are tied together with a loose story arc, and the instrumental features interplay between the acoustic rhythm guitar, and the mostly electric lead breaks. Prolific songwriters that they are, any other new Lowheart material is being compiled into a third new album, "Sleeping Dogs Bite", and several tracks have already been recorded with that set in mind. These are songs that fit neither with the flat-out full-throttle hard rock of "Rock Du Jour", nor the sparse acoustic style of "Catharsis". "Sleeping Dogs Bite" will follow in the Classic Rock vein of "Gravel or Gold", with the usual Hard Rock, Pop Rock, Country, and Blues influences, along with several ballads and progressive moments. "Sleeping Dogs Bite" should be released some time in 2021.