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Paste Magazine | NIVA Live List Finalists From 2023: Where Are They Now?

Posted 01/17/2024

Lowertown

Since Lowertown’s third album I Love To Lie was released last year, Avsha Weinberg and Olivia Osby have been working on more music that will allow them to find themselves now—along with what they feel still resonates after all these years of making music together. Today, it’s electronic. Tomorrow, it might be something totally different. The duo feel as though they’ve failed as artists if they make music that sounds exactly like something they’ve already released before. On their 2023 EP Skin of My Teeth, and specifically within the song “Bline,” they are honing in on an unaddressed lack of belonging somewhere—all while constructing the track with a sonic happiness, and therefore, a hopefulness. Lowertown’s performative stylings have a natural theatrical aspect to them that they aren’t always able to embody in front of the younger crowds they’ve opened for in the past—largely in fear of scaring audiences they had to fight tooth and nail to win over. On top of touring with Wednesday, Catcher and Slow Fiction, the fun and upbeat transcendence of Skin of My Teeth paints a completely new direction for Lowertown, who’ve vaulted into a mature, earned sound and undeniable, larger-than-life live prowess that’s primed them for an explosive 2024 and beyond. [Read our 2023 profile on Lowertown here]

“The Black List exists to identify and celebrate incredible creative work and its makers and provide them with the visibility that their talent demands,” says Franklin Leonard, The Black List Founder. “We’re incredibly excited to partner with NIVA to do exactly that in music and live performance. NIVA President Dayna Frank and I were assistants together in the early days of our careers, so this is a particularly fulfilling full circle moment for me personally.”

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