YU Rosie Lowe

• 1 Lifeline 02:23
• 2 The Way 06:19
• 3 Birdsong 04:34
• 4 Pharoah 03:52
• 5 Valium 01:30
• 6 Mango 03:15
• 7 ITILY 03:59
• 8 Little Bird 04:26
• 9 Royalty 03:18
• 10 Body // Blood 01:03
• 11 UEMM 03:54
• 12 Shoulder 01:20
• 13 Apologise 03:09
• Total Runtime 43:02

Info for YU

Rosie Lowe returns with her much-anticipated second album YU on Wolf Tone. Produced by Dave Okumu (The Invisible, Grace Jones, Jessie Ware) and featuring The P Funk Choir of Jamie Woon, Jamie Lidell, Jordan Rakei and Kwabs, first single Bird Song marks a new dawn for Rosie Lowe. The track was inspired, says Rosie, by ideas of “lust and desire, but with the lingering sense of insecurity and longing.” YU is a record that asks bigger questions of how the heart and mind works, and ultimately finds power through opening up both. A songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ, Rosie Lowe’s work digs into a richly complex mix of musical and emotional experiences.

On debut album Control she was striding out alone, tackling politics, feminism and modern relationships. But if Control was about self, YU – says Rosie – “is about other. I wanted to write about my experience of sharing my life with another as a lover, friend and partner.” These are intensely songs of the mind, which makes sense after all when you consider the fact that Lowe is also training in psychotherapy.

She grew up as one of six kids in rural Devon, having learnt the saxophone young (which she still plays and adores) and been exposed to a broad mix of soul, jazz, funk and R&B; influences which come to glorious fruition on her second album, where inspiration ranges from Childish Gambino, Gabrielle Garzon Montano and Thundercat to childhood heroes like Ella Fitzgerald or Charlie Parker. Lowe realised early on, too, that love was a fragile, difficult thing, her parents splitting up resulting in weekends spent living out of a bag.

Despite its richly classic feel, what’s emerged on YU is an album on thoroughly modern, twenty-first-century love: its childhood myths and more pragmatic realities, its utopias and difficult weathers. Those moments when you find out how you are, who you are, and if you’re brave enough, you let it all bleed through. On her stunning second album, YU, Rosie Lowe has also done just that.

Rosie Lowe, vocals

Rosie Lowe
Born in Devon, Rosie Lowe first burst on to the scene with her single ‘The Right Thing’ in 2013. Previously she had studied at the prestigious Goldsmiths in London following a childhood writing and performing music, influenced by her saxophonist dad. Rosie Lowe soon followed up the debut track with an LP titled ‘Control’ which was released in 2016 which featured a variety of atmospheric and captivating songs including the popular ‘Woman’. The enchanting song has gone on to feature in television shows such as the US series ‘Grown-ish’ and the Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried film ‘The Last Word’. After taking time out of the spotlight to write new material, Rosie Lowe returned in 2019 with her second album ‘Yu’ which explores the highs and lows of a relationship and contains influences from various other genres including pop and funk. The album was called ‘seductive minimalist soul’ by The Guardian and has received a wealth of positive reviews for its smooth R&B charm. Rosie Lowe is set to tour the UK to promote the album and has a rapidly growing fan base that even includes the likes of Elton John and Adele.

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