Lowertown have announced a brand new EP called Skin of My Teeth. We caught up with the Atlanta duo about their upcoming direction.
When Olivia Osby transferred to Avsha Weinberg’s high-school in Atlanta, the pair quickly developed a friendship that would blossom into the self-aware wistfulness and empathetic lo-fi gloom that is now Lowertown. The band itself is the homemade passion project of the longtime friends’ earliest movements into the Atlanta music scene, flowering into a beloved success and concentrated combination of the two’s spirited energy and intensity.
When Weinberg and Osby begin explaining how they came to kickstart Lowertown, Weinberg’s video freezes mid-sentence—where he sits with his mouth open, and Osby and I laugh as we wait for his image to resuscitate. “I can’t stop laughing at the painting of him in the background, because he’s in his partner’s room right now, but it’s just really funny,” she says. We become side-tracked from the original conversation.
As a woman deeply entrenched in my own area’s DIY scene, I relate too easily and familiarly to the hand that Osby has been dealt. It’s almost like one has to shed their gender, or mask it somehow, in order to be taken seriously as a woman—and it’s unfortunate. The continuous task of having to prove oneself over and over again in the industry just to be taken half as seriously as others is an exhausting one.
This tour holds a big place in Osby and Weinberg’s hearts too, as they’ve spent all of their energy on making it happen. They are still doing it completely DIY, with grace for a tactic so familiar and at-home for them. Osby and her drummer co-booked the dates, while Weinberg helms the stage setup. With extremely heartfelt music, it’s difficult to not be drawn into Lowertown’s live spirit and develop a deeper connection to the already meaningful music.
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