Lowlives announce debut album ‘Freaking Out’

LOWLIVES have announced their debut album!

Titled Freaking Out, the upcoming album from the West Coast-based rock band is their debut full-length album, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via Spinefarm Records.

“During my time away from music, someone bought a pair of child’s ear defenders for my wife and I as a present when we announced we were pregnant,” drummer Luke Johnson recalls. “I’d put them away in the cupboard, thinking we’d never need them, that I wouldn’t be playing any shows again. But they became this thing that nagged at me, the feeling that my daughter would never know the original me, for whom music was everything. Over time, those feelings came flooding back, as did the hunger, and the innocence. A massive part of me had been missing, and I wanted to get back to doing something pure and for the sheer love of it. That’s what LOWLIVES is. Whatever happens, happens. Let’s just Thelma And Louise this off a cliff.”

Recorded at Chapel Studios with producer Adrian Bushby, the 10 tracks that arrive under Freaking Out’s banner are the scintillating end product of their self-funded two-week stay, where the four musicians would work all day with joyous abandon on fleshing out the sketches of songs with which they arrived, before retiring at night to unwind over cans of cider and the football. “The experience of being forced into that situation of living and working together brought us even closer together, I feel,” adds vocalist/guitarist Lee Downer. “We were able to work collectively in a way we hadn’t previously, due to the geography of where we all live in the States.”

Alongside the announcement of the debut album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming debut; Loser. The new song is the second single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from Liar, which was released in December last year.

Speaking about the new song, Downer says, “Loser is a love song about a self proclaimed ‘loser’ who has fallen in love with someone they also see as a misfit outcast like themselves. Both as awkward and weird as each other just wishing they could be losers together. Musically it’s definitely the most pop song on the record and is an ode to 90’s alternative radio.”

Watch the official music video for Loser here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming debut album below:

Track List: 

1. Freaking Out
2. Liar
3. Getting High on Being Low
4. Swan Dive
5. Loser
6. You Don’t care
7. Out of Step
8. Closer Than You Know
9. Damien
10. Vertigo

Freaking Out is set for release on May 31st via Spinefarm Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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