An embracing alt-country hum meets unhurried psychedelic pop, carried by a wiry guitar bite and loose vocals—idiosyncratic and distinctive. We listen to The Lovely Basement, which rises above itself on Lowlands. If you like your music a little skewed and your melancholy served with jangling melody, this is a nice place to linger.
The ten songs here wrestle with human fallibility, while finding solace in community, art, and small acts of endurance. We wander through questions of faith, freedom, loss, and meaning in a world that’s both fragile and absurd. Beneath the wry observations runs a steady current of hope: that even as the world changes or collapses, there’s warmth, humor, and dignity to be found.
Lowlands—produced by Kevin Bache—releases November 14, digitally and on vinyl LP, through No Aloha Records and Precious Recordings of London. The Lovely Basement are a post-cool band from Bristol, UK, featuring Kevin Bache (guitars, vocals), Katie Scaife (guitars, vocals), Paul Waterworth (bass, vocals), and Steve Dew (drums, vocals).