Lowland Hum aims for "Thin"
"Thin" drops Feb. 10.
Based in Charlottesville, Va., Lowland Hum is Daniel and Lauren Goans. They met in North Carolina in 2009 when Daniel crashed a party at Lauren's apartment. The next year, Daniel asked Lauren to collaborate on an album he was working on, by adding harmony vocals and designing the artwork for the project, with her background in visual arts. Eventually, Lauren's voice was added to half the album.
Lowland Hum formed officially in 2012, a few months after the two were married. They debuted with "Native Air" in 2013, following it up in 2014 with "Four Sisters," a conceptual EP and video series. Last year, they released their eponymous sophomore full-length album.
Tour dates are.
Feb.
Feb. 10 - McGlohon Theatre at Spirit Square - Charlotte, NC*
Feb. 11 - Modlin Center for the Arts - Richmond, VA*
Feb. 17 - The Southern - Charlottesville, VA
Feb. 28 - Iota Club - Arlington, VA
March 1 - The Mercury Lounge - New York, NY
March 3 - Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, MA
March 4 - The Music Hall Loft - Portsmouth, NH
March 7 - Milkboy - Philadelphia, PA
* with Josh Ritter
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Daniel and Lauren Goans, the duo known as Lowland Hum, have always remained true to all their name implies, indulging in lowcast songs etched in a shoegaze motif. In that regard, their "Glyphonic" is really no different than any of their previous entries, given that it unfolds as a series of soft serenades, each ushered in through a steady strum of acoustic guitars and hushed harmonies that echo through repeated refrains. It's precious, but pervasive, and on songs such as ...
As a husband and wife duo, Daniel and Lauren Goans are naturally in sync. Their hushed harmonies and low-lit melodies boast an unmistakable folk finesse, one so pure and natural it seems like second nature. As their handle suggests, theirs' is hardly the boldest sound around, but it's compelling and convincing all the same.
Indeed, after a trio of earlier releases, that's all too evident, and if titling "Thin" was the result of a desire to affirm that fact, then suffice ...
The songwriting on Lowland Hum's sophomore effort isn't particularly clever; there are no self-penned folky anthems, rousing foot-stompers or new takes on old chestnuts. If it's jaw-dropping displays of folk musicianship you seek, look elsewhere; in fact, outside of Lauren Goans occasionally channeling folk-bluegrass songstress Sara Watkins, the vocals of this husband-and-wife duo aren't stirring or memorable.
Yet there's this compelling air about the new 13-song ...
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