Lowertown get poetic about boredom and isolation on "Alone Again My Friend"

Meeting in a high school Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg have been making music together as Lowertown for a couple of years now. Independently releasing their first singles and stunning first album Friends, today marks the debut of the band's EP HONEYCOMB, BEDBUG on Dirty Hit (Beabadoobee, Rina Sawayama).

"It's been so long I can't remember the things that used to be familiar," she sings on "Alone Again My Friend" as she documents the isolation she felt during this year's lockdown and periods of quarantine. It's a dreamy, but bleak indie-pop song which carries the weight of this year in its words. While Weinburg's production captures the relentless doom and gloom we've all experienced, there's still a weightlessness to the guitars and Osby's breathy vocals.

Written in two halves, one before the pandemic and one while the pandemic continued to rage on, across the EP's six tracks the pair hone in on pathways and solutions as they completed the extreme changes going on around them. "We were at the age where the line starts to blur between if we were now to be considered adults or still teenagers," Osby says of where the duo were at when the process began.

"I contemplated the growing complexity of my relationships with friends and family, the higher education system in America, how my gender affects the way people perceive and treat me, and how I should be spending the remaining valuable years of my youth," Osby explains.

"These songs capture a growing awareness and understanding of the reality of the world around me, and I hope to other people my age, it can be a reassurance that you don’t need to have the answers right now. At 19, I’m definitely not supposed to have figured most of these things yet, but I believe at this age, engaging with the process of considering the nature of things around you is extremely important.”