It's difficult to put a label on the music of this young Canadian hipster and that is probably also her intention. One minute she's presenting pumping beats à la MIA or Santigold, the next minute she's giving you a lump in the throat with a heart-stoppingly beautiful song, accompanied only by electric piano and some backing vocals (check out ‘The Birds’ on her EP ‘If You Can, Solve This Jumble’ from last year).
She already enjoyed a bit of attention in the past with the Apparatjik collective but has now chosen to continue making music under the name Lowell.
On her facebook page she describes herself as:
‘I don't wanna go out until the sun is out. I just want to be cold, on the horizon. It’s just me and my pillow, although we're dead sick of the cold. I don't want to tell you my stories, I don't want to talk about dreams, I just want to fold my eyes, into my sleepy seeds. You know, we'll never be friends, but that's the thing about us; we find love in chaos.’
As most important influences, she cites: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Feist, Tegan and Sara, Regina Spektor, Florence and the Machine, Sinead O'Connor, Kid Cudi, Chad VanGaalen, Devendra Banhart, Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire, Braids.