If you’re a musician living through a pandemic, you make a quarantine album. It’s what you do. Daniel and Lauren Goans, the married duo known musically as Lowland Hum, are no exception. Though given their 2010s output — five self-produced […]
There are two reasons why we stop to pay attention to something. It happens when a sight, smell, or sound is so arresting that our physical bodies automatically orient themselves toward that very thing — an early morning walk by […]
Like many music writers this time of year, I am currently in the process of going back through the dozens of albums that crossed my desk to give them another listen and begin to formulate my year-end “best of” list. […]
Was a time when you could reliably count on 99% of holiday-themed new releases being awful. Lifeless rehashes of “Jingle Bells,” oversentimental and instantly forgettable originals, and pop-ified “reimaginings” of classics that were just made for background noise to forced […]
Daniel and Lauren Goans, the indie darlings also known as Lowland Hum, are back again, one year after their gorgeous release Thin, with gifts for the holiday season. Songs for Christmas Time is one of those rare collections that hits […]
Music is a hard business. Operators within that realm often become disillusioned and jaded after years of setbacks and touring. But Lowland Hum seem to have found a happy valley between art and commerce, a place where they can continue […]
Kick the dust off your dad’s old cans from the ’70s and rev through four new records that’ll have your ear transmission shifting to accommodate. Swedish indie-popper Jens Lekman leads the charge with uncanny steel drums and a sunny disposition […]
Three albums on, Daniel and Lauren Goans, known collectively as Lowland Hum, remain true both to their name and their original motif. Thin boasts everything the title implies, a whispery collection of low cast songs etched in a folkish noir, […]
Three albums on, Daniel and Lauren Goans, known collectively as Lowland Hum, remain true both to their name and their original motif. Thin boasts everything the title implies, a whispery collection of low cast songs etched in a folkish noir, […]
