Seb Lowe’s The Other Half – Mini Album
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Intelligent and unflappably self-assured songsmith, Seb Lowe, releases his latest mini-album, The Other Half in the same week that he confirms his debut Glastonbury Festival appearance, set to appear on the Left Field Stage this June. Singing truths unpalatable enough to take the fizz from any banker’s cider this summer, Lowe’s leap from Tik-Tok to festival stages comes courtesy of an unimpeded connection with fans who know what he knows – that everything’s a bit sh*t and the wrong people are in charge. For anyone thinking ‘does he mean me?’ – he probably does.
Opening his latest, five-song collection with Upper Class, sounding like ‘Eminem meets Bob Dylan’, Lowe carves out the rotten soul of rewarded failure, connecting the opener with later track, Rat Sh*t in a consistent and justifiable narrative, wryly shaming the cocaine-addicted, hollowed-out souls of commerce and government dragging everybody else down to hopeless lows. Oldham-born (and living) Lowe strikes with a caustic humour and vital intellectual rigour. In There She Stood, Lowe proves that he can also tackle love and does so with a tender touch.
‘Educates the kids about the benefits of a free-market economy / now he’s about 11 / filtered out aggression / chats to his parents about the relevance of a pension / dreams about success where he can eat ‘til he’s full / he can write a dissertation but he can’t change a light bulb.” – Upper Class
Able to stand up his ideas fearlessly and without hesitation, Lowe reflects on his latest collection of songs, saying: “The Other Half is largely an amalgamation of my own thoughts. It sort of dots about the place with different ideas about different things. This ranges from something close to spoken word acoustic poetry – trying hopelessly to tackle ideas around conspiracy theories and political disillusionment – to the more built-up pieces, the stuff I would even call ‘songs’.
“‘Upper Class’ and ‘Rat Sh*t’ are still quite grounded in my usual patter about how broken the world is, but my recent single ‘There She Stood’ is almost a break from that, being a song, which is just about a boy and a girl.”
Gaining 250,000 followers on Tik Tok, establishing the social and political awareness of young music lovers if it was ever in doubt, and being amongst the first artists to be signed to the platform’s Sound On label, Lowe’s existence and popularity offline also gathers pace. An upcoming ‘homecoming’ show at Manchester’s Gorilla goes ahead on Sat 7 May, following a debut, sold out appearance at the Night and Day at the start of the year.
All of the currently confirmed UK live dates for Seb Lowe, including his first major festival appearances, are as follows:
Sat 7 May – Manchester, Gorilla
Fri 13 May – Brighton, The Great Escape – TikTok Stage
Sat 21 May – Warrington, Parr Hall
Sun 29 May – Warrington, Neighbourhood Festival
Sat 25 June – Glastonbury Left Field Stage
The Other Half is Seb Lowe’s second mini-album release, following 2021’s Seb Lowe’s Half Decent, both lifting many of his most popular Tik-Tok performances from the social network and into the studio in the company of producer, James Skelly.
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My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago
