Lowerton Release Video For New Single “Mice Protection” Ahead Of New Album “Ugly Duckling Union” Out This Friday - Announce Uk + Eu Tour Dates

• “Ever since coming out of the Atlanta DIY scene, Lowertown have always blurred the boundaries of genre, infusing folk, country, rock, and a punk ethos into their songs” - Rolling Stone
• “Somber yet intense” - Stereogum
• “Lowertown’s compositions are built around surreal, sometimes cryptic imagery and emotional revelations”- FLOOD
• “Luscious lo-fi indie bops” - DIY
• “Lowertown are in possession of a delicate talent” - Beats Per Minute
• “The latest in a generation of artists determined not to be defined by genre” - Notion
• “Something both strangely familiar and all the more enticing” - Our Culture
• “Blends soft-spoken lyricism bordering on avant-garde poetry and experimental indie rock instrumentation” - Ones to Watch

Lowertown, the New York duo of Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg, release a video for “Mice Protection,” the final single from their anticipated new album, "Ugly Duckling Union", out this Friday via Summer Shade. Rolling Stone, who profiled the band today, is saying “Lowertown have always blurred the boundaries of genre, infusing folk, country, rock, and a punk ethos into their songs.”

“The first song written for ‘Ugly Duckling Union’, the song starts with an exhale. After 2 years of extensive touring and emotional turmoil moving out of our childhoods houses in Atlanta, we had to reevaluate our relationship within music and the band. Mice protection was the first time back in a basement studio and the first time we realized we knew the direction for the new album,” the band explains. “We called the song ‘Mice Protection’ to pay homage to Avsha’s rat infested house that all of ‘Ugly Duckling Union’ was recorded in. Its lyrics are an introduction to some of the core themes of the album like the ambiguity of right and wrong, reality in the scope of different perspectives, and the darkness and light that exists and within an individual.”

Lowertown are currently on tour in support of "Ugly Duckling Union", their riotous live show, which has been selling out shows across the tour, is not to be missed. All dates below. Tickets are available via lowertown.band.

The songwriting partnership of Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg, the last few years saw the prolific pair teetering on the brink. From constant touring and a separation from their label to creative frustrations and an unhealthy attachment to one another, their artistic partnership and, more importantly, their friendship were on shaky ground—especially since these experiences were colored by the disorienting intensity of their late teens and early 20s. It became clear that the two had to revisit their roots.

Those roots trace back to Atlanta, Georgia: in the forests, the soon-to-be abandoned venues, the makeshift punk communities, to Weinberg’s family basement, but those roots also formed somewhere else entirely: the internet. The band grew up on Tumblr fanpages, Reddit forums, digital spaces that had not yet been corporatized. Places whose fandoms eventually leapt from the virtual to the physical, bringing people together to meet at concerts, coffee shops, and conventions to discuss their obsessions and connect over shared interests.

During the pandemic, they watched these places change, become commodified, and disappear; people no longer had these physical spaces to be solely amongst friends with shared interests where communities and fandoms could strengthen. Out of this vacuum, the "Ugly Duckling Union" was born.

On previous single “Big Thumb,” Lowertown showcase how far they’ve come since their early days in Atlanta. In an unkempt folk-jazz murmur, Weinberg slurs his words with palpable heart, while Osby’s lush vocal melodies and harmonica encircle to haunting effect. The track arrives with a surreal video directed by Jack Haven (I Saw The TV Glow). Lead single “I Like You A Lot” is a rare love song from the pair, detailing the physical sensations of infatuation over a spry drumbeat and lo-fi, twangy guitars. The country-tinged “Worst Friend” arrived with a video where the close knit duo killed time in a seemingly uninhabited small town. Watch videos for all three songs below.

EU/UK 2026 Tour Dates:

• September 1st - Dublin, IRE @ The Grand Social
• September 3rd - Leeds, UK @ Belgrave Music Hall
• September 4th - Glasgow, UK @ Nice n Sleazy
• September 5th - Manchester, UK @ Manchester Psychfest @ YES (Basement)
• September 6th - Bristol, UK @ Exchange
• September 7th - London, UK @ Oslo
• September 9th - Paris, FR @ Chinois
• September 12th - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso (Upstairs)
• September 15th - Cologne, DE @ Bumann & Sohn
• September 16th - Hamburg, DE @ Reeperbahn Festival
• September 18th - Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree
• September 19th - Copenhagen, DK @ Forbrændingen
• September 22nd - Schorndorf, DE @ Manufaktur
• September 23rd - Aarau, CH @ KIFF
• September 24th - Torino, IT @ Spazio 211
• September 25th - Milano, IT @ Arci Bellezza
• September 26th - Rome, IT @ Wishlist

PRE SAVE "UGLY DUNCKLING UNION" HERE

LISTEN TO "MICE PROTECTION" HERE

Inspired by the conceptual creativity of bands like Gorillaz and the emphasis on the communal concert experience of Fugazi, Lowertown’s new album, fittingly titled "Ugly Duckling Union", is the conceptual world of Dale the duckling protagonist and his companions as they attempt to band together to defeat LBH, a tyrannical media corporation set on separating and isolating in their pursuit of control.

Through the band’s online connection with fans, their Discord server with channels for their community to share their own art and talk to the band, and their Instagram and Youtube pages, where they have built a cult following, they have already begun to bridge the gap between the digital and physical. Lowertown shows are often giddily attended by those who have met through their web of online fandom. "Ugly Duckling Union", accompanied by a conceptual story, a playable Minecraft world, a handbook, plush dolls, and drawn comics by Doctor Nowhere (Silas Orion), is creating the space to be obsessed together again.

"Ugly Duckling Union" was fully written, recorded, produced, and mixed by Osby and Weinberg, and that insular, hands-on ethic is something they cherish—and has never waned. Although Lowertown are the sole caretakers of their art, their new album title is a celebration of the meaningful community they’ve built. “Our home has been the people who make us feel understood, and the music that makes us feel understood,” Osby explains. “I feel like Avsha and I have just been two misfits doing stuff together, and I feel like this music is for people like us—it’s for the misfit toys.” There’s a lot of freedom in being an outsider, and that’s ultimately what "Ugly Duckling Union" is about—finding and freeing yourself through community. And what could be more freeing, self-confronting, and funny than making a beautiful record with your ride-or-die, misfit-toy best friend?

"Ugly Duckling Union" 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