“I don’t know how to explain” — that’s a good hook. What is music, after all, if not a grappling with what is hard to communicate? New York’s Lowertown don’t know how to explain an infatuation on “I Like You A Lot,” a charming, scrappy earworm from their just-announced new album Ugly Duckling Union.
Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg say the track “was written about the hope of a new crush, and the intoxicating feelings of admiring and fantasizing about someone from afar.” The indie duo continues:
Loving someone without yet knowing them, and being filled with the idea of the potential time spent together. This thinking can become obsessive and compulsive, almost like a sickness taking over the body, but maybe not in a particularly bad way. It is also about the insecurity and the uncertainty about these feelings being reciprocated or un-reciprocated.
The announcement comes with the news of their signing to Summer Shade. Check out the endearing “I Like You A Lot” music video below.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Mice Protection”
02 “Worst Friend”
03 “Echo Of Desire”
04 “Forgive Yourself”
05 “Big Thumb”
06 “Cover You”
07 “I Like You A Lot”
08 “(I Like To Play With) Mutts”
09 “DIPSH*T”
10 “Anything Good Takes Blood”
11 “Found A”
12 “Some Things Never End”
TOUR DATES:
04/28 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Loft
04/29 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
05/01 – Burlington, VT @ Radio Bean
05/02 – Montreal @ Ministere
05/04 – Ottawa, CAN @ 27 Club
05/05 – Toronto, CAN @ Hard Luck Room
05/07 – Cleveland, OH @ Mahall’s
05/08 – Indianapolis, IN @ HiFi
05/09 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
05/10 – Whitefish Bay, WI @ The Argo
05/12 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
05/13 – Des Moines, IA @ xBK
05/14 – Lawrence, KS @ The White Schoolhouse
05/16 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
05/18 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
05/19 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club
05/22 – Seattle, WA @ Baba Yaga
05/23 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
05/26 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
05/29 – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
05/30 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy
05/31 – San Diego, CA @ Quartyard
06/08 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
06/11 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
06/12 – Austin, TX @ 29th St Ballroom
06/13 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
06/15 – Nashville, TN @ The End
06/17 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (HELL)
06/19 – Jacksonville, FL @ Hard Love
06/20 – Orlando, FL @ Conduit
06/22 – Miami, FL @ Lincoln’s Beard
06/23 – Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
06/25 – Durham, NC @ The Pinhook
06/26 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
06/27 – New York City, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Ugly Duckling Union is out 5/22 via Summer Shade. Pre-order it here.
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