Rosie Lowe premieres video for ‘The Way’ (ft Jay Electronica)
Rosie Lowe premieres video for ‘The Way’ (ft Jay Electronica)
Sold-out Village Underground show (October 23rd)Tours with Hot Chip, Shura & February 2020 headline dates also confirmed
Watch the video for ‘The Way’ (ft. Jay Electronica)
Praise for the second album, ‘YU’‘YU’ is a swagger drenched, masterful treatise from a woman w
ith 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 shared the beautifully intimate video for ‘The Way’ (ft Jay Electronica), taken from her much-acclaimed second album ‘YU’. Ahead of her sold-out headline show at London’s Village Underground on October 23rd, Rosie will also set out on tour this autumn alongside Hot Chip (featuring their two Alexandra Palace shows) and Shura (with whom she worked on recent album ‘forevher’).
About how ‘The Way’ and its new video came to light, Rosie explains “My album YU began in Dave Okumu’s flat, just my voice and Dave’s guitar, with the heart of ‘The Way’ reverberating off the walls by the end of day one. I’m a huge Jay Electronica fan, I imagined Jay’s voice on the song. I had a feeling he may dig it, so I asked, and he did. When he sent over his verse it was such a surreal moment for me, such a dream.” ‘The Way’ is a love song I wrote about my partner and I thought who better to shoot it than him, through his lens. We jumped on a flight to Mexico and spent 10 days traveling around the country with some old film cameras, shooting as we went. ‘The Way’ is about giving in to something that feels so good. As Jay puts it, sometimes “there’s nothing left to do but get lost in love”.
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.
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.
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 Underground *sold out*October 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)Nov 4 – Paris, FR @ Café de la Danse (w/ Shura)Nov 5 – Cologne, DE @ Luxor (w/ Shura)Nov 6 – Munich, DE @ Ampere (w/ Shura)Nov 7 – Berlin, DE @ Lido (w/ Shura)Nov 8 – Hamburg, DE @ Mojo (w/ Shura)Nov 10 – Copenhagen, DK @ Hotel Cecil (w/ Shura)Nov 12 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg (w/ Shura)Nov 13 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique Orangerie (w/ Shura)Nov 14 – London, UK @ Roundhouse (w/ Shura)Nov 16 – Dublin, IE @ Academy (w/ Shura)Nov 17 – Glasgow, UK @ Oran Mor (w/ Shura)Nov 18 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz Manchester (w/ Shura)February 14 || Leeds || Headrow HouseFebruary 15 || Manchester || YESFebruary 18 || Brighton || PatternsFebruary 20 || Bristol || Louisiana
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Listen to ‘YU’ ‘: https://rosielowe.lnk.to/YUTW