Last month, Lowertown announced their new album Ugly Duckling Union and shared the kooky, addictive lead single “I Like You A Lot.” Now New York’s beloved indie duo is back with “Big Thumb.”
“‘Big Thumb’ was written during Olive’s obsession with collecting newspaper clippings and found pieces of writing,” Avsha Weinberg says, expounding:
She had always wanted to write a song in the way the 90’s industrial scene had by using newspaper clippings to inspire lyrics. Olive collected many different clippings and writings for us and spread them out on the ground, so that when we would begin to play together, Olive on harmonica and me on 12-string guitar, we could sing the words that inspired us most. What stuck was an almost mantra-like repetition of the words “Holding out the Big Thumb” which became the song’s conceptual core. The song became a reflection on the feeling of directionlessness in our generation, and how the paths of life that were carved out for previous generations are now void. We are left to drift along aimlessly or hopefully carve out some brand new path.
The track comes with a music video directed by Jack Haven (I Saw The TV Glow). Watch below.
Ugly Duckling Union is out 5/22 via Summer Shade.
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