Album review
Olivia O., one half of the NYC-via-Atlanta duo Lowertown, has announced her sophomore album, No Bones, Sickly Sweet. It’s due out November 1, and the lead single ‘One Hit Wonder’ is out now. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
“’One Hit Wonder’ is a song of self-deprecation and ‘what if’s’ and the schadenfreude instinct inside all of us,” Osby explained in a statement. “I wrote this song during a period of extreme disgust with myself as well as regret and compulsive obsession over choices i had made in the past.”
No Bones, Sickly Sweet was almost entirely written, recorded, and produced by Osby, with contributions from her Lowertown bandmate Avsha Weinberg and, on one song, Sean Henry. “This album is very personal and vulnerable – a lot of it was made during periods of spending excessive time by myself,” Osby shared. “It’s me trying to confront things that I’ve been avoiding, and sort of a retaliation against things I’ve been feeling really grossed out or confined by.”
She added: “While writing this album I returned to the innocent simplicity of my earlier music – approaching it with minimalism in mind, only adding to a song if it had a purpose, forcing myself not to overcomplicate out of insecurity. I wasn’t going to pressure myself to add more because I felt like a song was too simple, or to assert that I’m a ‘real musician’. I’m a real musician if I just write a song with one chord.”
Lowertown released their debut studio album, I Love to Lie, in 2022. Read our inspirations interview around the album, and revisit our Artist Spotlight feature with the band.
No Bones, Sickly Sweet Cover Artwork:
No Bones, Sickly Sweet Tracklist:
1. Little Bug
2. One Hit Wonder
3. My
4. Hole
5. Roof Song
6. Rejection
7. Betty
8. Hurt Me
9. Favorites
10. Ballad Of The Bullheaded Man
11. Walking The Tightrope
12. it’s easy
