Rosie Lowe confirms Hot Chip tour + Meltdown show, headline dates, second album ‘YU’ out now (Wolftone)
Rosie Lowe confirms Hot Chip tour & Jungle/Meltdown date
Headline Village Underground show
& 2020 dates also confirmed
Acclaimed second album – ‘YU’ – available now
LISTEN to ‘YU’: https://rosielowe.lnk.to/YUTW
‘YU’ is a swagger drenched, masterful treatise from a woman with anew perspective, new weapons, and the confidence to use them” Clash, 9/10“A triumphant return…D’Angelo levels of wonky greatness.” Loud & Quiet, 8/10“Warm, analogue-smudged R&B that blossoms with repeated plays…akin to Erykah Badu’s more atmospheric and experimental approach”. Mojo 4/5“Exploring love, religion and fidelity…an intoxicating mix.” The Guardian Guide“A major departure…how Rosie Lowe learned to embrace the love song” Dazed“Lyrics of lust and trust to slinky digital funk, sensual soul-pop, and vintage disco” Sunday Times Culture
Rosie Lowe has today confirmed details of a UK tour alongside Hot Chip, including the band’s massive London show at Alexandra Palace on October 26th, as well as the invitation to open for Jungle at Meltdown Festival / Royal Festival Hall on Monday August 5th. Currently concluding a festival run in support of second album ‘YU’, Rosie will headline London’s Village Underground on October 23rd, with further shows for 2020 now on sale around the UK as below. The album’s next single will follow soon, whilst Rosie continues work on further new material. Released this spring to extensive critical acclaim, ‘YU’ already has the feel of a defining moment for Rosie Lowe: musically, but emotionally too. Produced alongside Dave Okumu (The Invisible, Grace Jones, Jessie Ware), it’s a work that casts Lowe – a songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, radio DJ and trainee psychotherapist – as a true polymath, who has gathered an incredible cast around her. With guests ranging from Jay Electronica, Jamie Woon, Jamie Lidell, Kwabs and Jordan Rakei to the leading lights across the contemporary jazz and dance scenes (Sam Shephard, Gwilym Gold), at the centre of it all is a woman placing herself under extraordinarily intimate analysis. As much as it explores new sounds and stories, ‘YU’ also sees Rosie Lowe look back on her life, and all those things that make ‘YU’. She grew up as one of six kids in rural Devon, having learnt the saxophone young (which she still plays and adores) and been exposed to a broad mix of soul, jazz, funk and R&B; influences which come to glorious fruition on her second album, where inspiration ranges from Childish Gambino, Gabrielle Garzon Montano and Erykah Badu to childhood heroes like Ella Fitzgerald or Charlie Parker. Lowe realised early on, too, that love was a fragile, difficult thing, her parents splitting up when she was young resulting in living between homes. Time spent at Goldsmiths and later working behind the scenes at big labels reinforced Rosie’s need to operate outside of the regular rules (whether in relationships, or making music). Her debut record, the acclaimed ‘Control’, saw Lowe stride out alone, tackling politics, feminism and the self. ‘YU’, in contrast, “is about other. I wanted to write about my experience of sharing my life with another as a lover, friend and partner.”Despite its richly classic feel, what’s emerged on ‘YU’ is an album on thoroughly modern, twenty-first-century love: its childhood myths and more pragmatic realities, its utopias and difficult weathers. Those moments when you find out how you are, who you are, and if you’re brave enough, you let it all bleed through. On her stunning second album, ‘YU’, Rosie Lowe has just done that.
August 5 || London || Royal Festival Hall (w/ Jungle).August 15 || Cambridge || We Out Here Festival October 18 || Birmingham || O2 Institute 1 (w/ Hot Chip)October 19 || Glasgow || Barrowland (w/ Hot Chip)October 21 || Bristol || O2 Academy (w/ Hot Chip)October 22 || Nottingham || Rock City (w/ Hot Chip)October 23 || London || Village UndergroundOctober 24 || Norwich || The Nick Rayns LCR (w/ Hot Chip)October 25 || Manchester || Academy 1 (w/ Hot Chip)October 26 || London || Alexandra Palace (w/ Hot Chip)February 14 || Leeds || Headrow HouseFebruary 15 || Manchester || YESFebruary 18 || Brighton || PatternsFebruary 20 || Bristol || Louisiana
WATCH the ‘Pharoah’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS7JCkglo7I
WATCH ‘Birdsong’ live for COLORS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEqUGiDe_jA