Lowly | Softy

Danish quintet Lowly are back with their fourth studio album, the organic and expansive Softy, out 30th October on Bella Union. After their previous album, 2023’s Keep Up the Good Work, Nanna Schannong (vocals), Soffie Viemose (vocals), Kasper Staub (synthesizer), Thomas Lund (bass), and Steffen Lundtoft (drums) wanted to reconnect to the creative process that bound them together when they formed over a decade ago: namely, getting in a room together with their instruments and working out their ideas with only their talent and their esteem for one another guiding the way. The result is an album of deep emotionality, exploring themes of parenthood, family, love, and loss, while expanding on the dreampop sound that made their early releases so popular throughout the UK and Europe.

Of all their releases thus far, Softy feels the most like Lowly. Not just in the moods, in the lyrics, or even in the music—but in the fact that for more than 10 years, they have been working together as an organism of many parts, not symbiotic but interdependent of each individual's contribution.. Softy is the sound of five people who don’t need words to communicate, and thus, have created a seamless listening experience made up of their biggest achievements and more vulnerable moments. Four albums in, and this is just the beginning.