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Literally and figuratively, Lowell is a wolf. Her very name stems from the French origin of the word, but her approach to music, creating, and the way she’s embraced both are a testament to both she and her namesake: fearless, determined, and a natural pack leader.
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- 09/16/201509/16/2015
Lowell + Icona Pop Release Official Video For "Ride"
Shot entirely on 16mm film on location in Toronto and Los Angeles, the official video forLowell and Icona Pop’s collaborative single “Ride” was directed by Lowell and Sylvain Chausée. The underground Toronto-based France-born video artist Chausée met Lowell at a warehouse party where he was showing an exhibit of his silent film “Zephyr” accompanied by an organ [seen here]. Lowell was so moved by Chausée’s projection...
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“Cloud 69” MP3 Drops w/ VICE’s Noisey
“I’m like dynamite / Need a cheerleader / Let me throw you down while I look at her / I’m like, “Oh my god, I think I need a girlfriend - Fuck all you bad boys"
The newest signee to renowned indie label Arts & Crafts, 23 year old LOWELL has just announced the release of her debut EP, I Killed Sara V., February 25! Pairing perfect pop melodies and pointed gender politics to the forefront of her music, Lowell’s refreshingly rebellious approach places her at the vanguard of her pop contemporaries.
Album track “88” is armed with Lowell’s remarkable vocals that cut through erratic yet melodic percussion. EP opener “Cloud 69” explodes with her riotous and sensual vocals, which are solidified with infectious, hook-laden honesty. “Cloud 69” premiered with VICE’s Noisey, and is available to post & share HERE.
Lowell has already found success across Canada & Europe through the release of 2012’s If You Can Solve This Jumble, a collaborative mini-album which she wrote & recorded with the super group Apparatjik featuring Grammy Award-winning producer Martin Terefe with members of Coldplay, Mew, and A-ha. 2013 began with a self-financed UK tour as well as acclaimed appearances at CMJ & and shows across Europe. 2014 will undoubtedly find Lowell bringing her provocative music and politics to a larger audience.
Stay tuned for more from Lowell coming soon!
“Cloud 69” MP3 Drops w/ VICE’s Noisey
“I’m like dynamite / Need a cheerleader / Let me throw you down while I look at her / I’m like, “Oh my god, I think I need a girlfriend - Fuck all you bad boys"
The newest signee to renowned indie label Arts & Crafts, 23 year old LOWELL has just announced the release of her debut EP, I Killed Sara V., February 25! Pairing perfect pop melodies and pointed gender politics to the forefront of her music, Lowell’s refreshingly rebellious approach places her at the vanguard of her pop contemporaries.
Album track “88” is armed with Lowell’s remarkable vocals that cut through erratic yet melodic percussion. EP opener “Cloud 69” explodes with her riotous and sensual vocals, which are solidified with infectious, hook-laden honesty. “Cloud 69” premiered with VICE’s Noisey, and is available to post & share HERE.
Lowell has already found success across Canada & Europe through the release of 2012’s If You Can Solve This Jumble, a collaborative mini-album which she wrote & recorded with the super group Apparatjik featuring Grammy Award-winning producer Martin Terefe with members of Coldplay, Mew, and A-ha. 2013 began with a self-financed UK tour as well as acclaimed appearances at CMJ & and shows across Europe. 2014 will undoubtedly find Lowell bringing her provocative music and politics to a larger audience.
Stay tuned for more from Lowell coming soon!
“Cloud 69” MP3 Drops w/ VICE’s Noisey
“I’m like dynamite / Need a cheerleader / Let me throw you down while I look at her / I’m like, “Oh my god, I think I need a girlfriend - Fuck all you bad boys"
The newest signee to renowned indie label Arts & Crafts, 23 year old LOWELL has just announced the release of her debut EP, I Killed Sara V., February 25! Pairing perfect pop melodies and pointed gender politics to the forefront of her music, Lowell’s refreshingly rebellious approach places her at the vanguard of her pop contemporaries.
Album track “88” is armed with Lowell’s remarkable vocals that cut through erratic yet melodic percussion. EP opener “Cloud 69” explodes with her riotous and sensual vocals, which are solidified with infectious, hook-laden honesty. “Cloud 69” premiered with VICE’s Noisey, and is available to post & share HERE.
Lowell has already found success across Canada & Europe through the release of 2012’s If You Can Solve This Jumble, a collaborative mini-album which she wrote & recorded with the super group Apparatjik featuring Grammy Award-winning producer Martin Terefe with members of Coldplay, Mew, and A-ha. 2013 began with a self-financed UK tour as well as acclaimed appearances at CMJ & and shows across Europe. 2014 will undoubtedly find Lowell bringing her provocative music and politics to a larger audience.
Stay tuned for more from Lowell coming soon!
“Cloud 69” MP3 Drops w/ VICE’s Noisey
“I’m like dynamite / Need a cheerleader / Let me throw you down while I look at her / I’m like, “Oh my god, I think I need a girlfriend - Fuck all you bad boys"
The newest signee to renowned indie label Arts & Crafts, 23 year old LOWELL has just announced the release of her debut EP, I Killed Sara V., February 25! Pairing perfect pop melodies and pointed gender politics to the forefront of her music, Lowell’s refreshingly rebellious approach places her at the vanguard of her pop contemporaries.
Album track “88” is armed with Lowell’s remarkable vocals that cut through erratic yet melodic percussion. EP opener “Cloud 69” explodes with her riotous and sensual vocals, which are solidified with infectious, hook-laden honesty. “Cloud 69” premiered with VICE’s Noisey, and is available to post & share HERE.
Lowell has already found success across Canada & Europe through the release of 2012’s If You Can Solve This Jumble, a collaborative mini-album which she wrote & recorded with the super group Apparatjik featuring Grammy Award-winning producer Martin Terefe with members of Coldplay, Mew, and A-ha. 2013 began with a self-financed UK tour as well as acclaimed appearances at CMJ & and shows across Europe. 2014 will undoubtedly find Lowell bringing her provocative music and politics to a larger audience.
Stay tuned for more from Lowell coming soon!
“Cloud 69” MP3 Drops w/ VICE’s Noisey
“I’m like dynamite / Need a cheerleader / Let me throw you down while I look at her / I’m like, “Oh my god, I think I need a girlfriend - Fuck all you bad boys"
The newest signee to renowned indie label Arts & Crafts, 23 year old LOWELL has just announced the release of her debut EP, I Killed Sara V., February 25! Pairing perfect pop melodies and pointed gender politics to the forefront of her music, Lowell’s refreshingly rebellious approach places her at the vanguard of her pop contemporaries.
Album track “88” is armed with Lowell’s remarkable vocals that cut through erratic yet melodic percussion. EP opener “Cloud 69” explodes with her riotous and sensual vocals, which are solidified with infectious, hook-laden honesty. “Cloud 69” premiered with VICE’s Noisey, and is available to post & share HERE.
Lowell has already found success across Canada & Europe through the release of 2012’s If You Can Solve This Jumble, a collaborative mini-album which she wrote & recorded with the super group Apparatjik featuring Grammy Award-winning producer Martin Terefe with members of Coldplay, Mew, and A-ha. 2013 began with a self-financed UK tour as well as acclaimed appearances at CMJ & and shows across Europe. 2014 will undoubtedly find Lowell bringing her provocative music and politics to a larger audience.
Stay tuned for more from Lowell coming soon!
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Lowell is unlike any artist in popular music today: a beacon of imagination, femininity, and confidence. Equal parts art-punk brat and sex-positive pop icon, Lowell’s music confronts LGBTQ and women’s rights with unbridled courage and optimism. As NPR lauded her 2014 debut LP We Loved Her Dearly, Lowell makes “irresistible pop music from an expressly feminist perspective … the world’s first freedom fighter to come armed with pom-poms.”
Originally invited by Icona Pop and Grammy Award-winning producer Martin Terefe to collaborate, “Ride” was written by Lowell with Icona Pop, Terefe and Florian Reutter (Tinchy Stryder) during sessions at Terefe’s legendary Kenseltown Studios in London (Adele, Lana Del Rey, Arcade Fire).
The song was inspired by Adeline and Augusta Van Buren who, in 1916 at the ages of 22 and 24, became the first women to ride motorcycles across the United States. In doing so, they sought to prove that women could ride as well as men and, subsequently, serve as dispatch riders during World War 1.
“Ride” collides perfectly with Icona Pop’s own brand of uplifting dance-pop. On the impulse of a California escapade, Lowell and Icona Pop sing idyllic lyrics of love, velocity, and uprising, as they race along the coast from LA to San Francisco.
In Lowell’s own words: “Ride” is for everyone out there who has been called “abrasive” for being bold, a “rebel” for rioting, a “shit-disturber” for disrupting the status quo, and, most of all, for all the bad-asses who get called “bitchy” for being BOSS.
Lit up by “Ride”, her brightest, most resolute song yet, Lowell is poised for critical mass. For all her many talents – visual arts, production, fashion, and creative activism – Lowell’s hands-on approach has rendered an image as thoughtful as it is carefree. NPR captured it well describing “irresistible pop music from an expressly feminist perspective … the world’s first freedom fighter to come armed with pom-poms.” It is this heedless ambition that drew Icona Pop to Lowell as its muse.
Well-armoured and un-baffled, Lowell’s version of the Van Buren sisters’ pioneering ride thunders into the Hollywood sunset cutting a wake of 21st century fearlessness to draft on. “Ride” is the ignition of meaning within the mischievous: it carries a message of individual and collective empowerment on vibrant melodies of pop abandon. It’s high time we all – female and male riders alike – “get on the bike and go”!
Lowell has released her critically acclaimed debut album today via Arts & Crafts to a great deal of anticipation. Writing openly about topics like sexual abuse, LGBTQ rights, rape, abortion, and women’s rights throughout the record, her refreshing approach is what stands her unique brand of sophisticated synth-infused pop apart from the rest.
In celebration of the long-awaited album release, Lowell has revealed a remix by the alter-ego of "I Love You Money" co-producer Adam King, IVIVI. Check out “I Love You Money” (IVIVI Remix) HERE and read more about the album + dance to her “Work Out Party Mix” featured on Entertainment Weekly. The We loved Her Dearly album stream premiered with NPR First Listen and is now available at Spotify.
Taking a cue from the rebellious, feminist-punk contemporaries that her messaging has often been compared to (Kathleen Hanna, Beth Ditto), Lowell’s brand of pop conveys the urgency of her subject matter, but her melodies keep songs accessible, optimistic and fun. Lowell’s charmingly earnest yet raucous live show commands audiences to their feet. She will hit the road once again with Icona Pop and Generationals + one-offs with Dum Dum Girls and Monarchy this fall to support the release of We Loved Her Dearly.
Hailed by SPIN as “high-spirited pop that Haim and Grimes could commend," Lowell’s refreshingly rebellious approach is what stands her unique brand of sophisticated synth-infused pop apart from the rest. In addition to writing openly about topics like sexual abuse, rape, abortion, and women’s rights, Lowell boldly addresses LGBTQ rights in our society – as heard in the celebratory track “LGBT”. Taking a cue from the feminist-punk contemporaries that her messaging has often been compared to (Kathleen Hanna, Beth Ditto), Lowell’s brand of pop conveys the urgency of her subject matter, but her melodies keep songs accessible, optimistic and fun. “LBGT” premiered with Rookie and is available to post & share HERE.
Lowell’s charmingly earnest yet raucous live show commands audiences to their feet. She has performed alongside Flume, Grimes, Majical Cloudz and will hit the road once again next week in support of her album’s release. Lowell’s debut full-length record We Loved Her Dearly, is available for pre-order and is set for release September 16 via Arts & Crafts!
Lowell’s refreshingly rebellious approach is what stands her unique brand of sophisticated synth-infused pop apart from the rest. Today, she has revealed the high-spirited pop ballad “Summertime,” an irresistible warm weather anthem that commands you to move. Just one track amongst a brilliant blend of deliriously catchy melodies and feminist punk gender politics, the track premiered with SPIN Magazine and you can post & share“Summertime” HERE. Lowell’s debut full-length record We Loved Her Dearly, is available for pre-order and is set for release September 16 via Arts & Crafts!
Lowell is like dynamite: ferocious, unrelenting, and determined – but not only when it comes to her music. Her songs are written to empower not only herself, but also her listeners -- to challenge gender conventions and inspire freedom from social limitations. Taking a cue from her feminist-punk contemporaries, Lowell’s brand of pop conveys the urgency of her subject matter, but her melodies keep songs accessible, optimistic and fun. Be sure to catch her energized live show as she kicks off a short stint of east coast dates and stay tuned for more tour details coming soon!
Debut Album We Loved Her Dearly
Out September 16 via Arts & Crafts
Lowell is like dynamite: ferocious, unrelenting, and determined – but not only when it comes to her music. True to the singer’s radical vibe, the new video for “The Bells” sees Lowell living out her own otherworldly version of the high school dream. After asking “Can you give me beat?” Lowell takes off with skull-faced dancers and cheerleaders, skipping around a football field to her infectious electro rhythm before launching into a full on dance party with the freaks and geeks- check it out "The Bells" video HERE. Just one track amongst a brilliant blend of deliriously catchy melodies and feminist punk gender politics, her debut full-length record We Loved Her Dearly, is set for release September 16 via Arts & Crafts!
Taking a cue from her feminist-punk contemporaries, Lowell’s brand of pop conveys the urgency of her subject matter, but her melodies keep songs accessible, optimistic and fun. Writing each song to empower not only herself, but also her listeners -- to challenge gender conventions and inspire freedom from social limitations. Lowell’s refreshingly rebellious approach is what stands her unique brand of sophisticated synth-infused pop apart from the rest.
“Lowell is No Ordinary Pop Chanteuse” – The New York Times, T Magazine
“..supercharges our summer with her saccharine single. Is it an anti-consumerist anthem or a pro-capitalist smash? Hey! Woo! Who cares!” – Rolling Stone
“There’s this Canadian misandrist cheerleader that I’m the most excited about. Her name is Lowell…does she want to make out with me or beat me up? I don’t care, whatever she wants from me I want to give it.” – NPR Music
"a dreamy pick-me-up that prepares you for romantic letdowns” – SPIN
Press
- Noisey, Track review, 01/22/2014, LISTEN TO LOWELL'S NEW TRACK "CLOUD 69" Text
- Refinery 29, Feature story, 02/26/2014, Listen: Lowell Killed Sara V. & Got Away With It Text
- Nylon, Feature story, 06/26/2014, grrrl talk: lowell Text
- The New York Times, T Magazine, Track review, 06/26/2014, Listen Up | Lowell is No Ordinary Pop Chanteuse Text