Album Info Hide Show Artist: Lowly Album: Keep Up The Good Work Released: UK & Europe, 2023 Tracklist: 1 What A Day 1:37 2 Seasons 3:52 3 Keep Up The Good Work 5:41 4 Happen 3:21 5 Feel Someone 3:59 6 The Fish 4:47 7 YAGAILY 0:42 8 You Are Good And I Love You 3:11 9 Lead Me 2:54 10 13:21 1:35 11 Nothing Much 3:22 12 Took A Day Off Feeling Sad 3:55 13 The We The You The I 4:51 14 Mouth 3:42 Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Lowlys third album, Keep Up The Good Work, arrived on 17 February 2023 via Bella Union, and it might be their most disarming record yet. The Danish five piece lean hard into care and community this time, not as a slogan but as a working method. They invited friends, family and fans to send short voice notes of encouragement, then wove those messages into the fabric of the songs. It sounds like a risky idea on paper. In practice it lands as a gentle chorus of reminders in the margins, the kind of murmured kindness that gets you through a grim commute or a lonely midnight. The bands core strengths are still front and centre. Soffie Viemose and Nanna Schannong trade lead and harmony vocals with a lightness that feels almost weightless. Keys and synths from Kasper Staub give the music a dusky glow, while the rhythm section keeps everything breathing and unhurried. If youve followed them since Heba and Hifalutin, youll recognise the intricate layers and the sense of space they carve out for tiny details to bloom. Only now theres a clearer line drawn around the songs. Its less cryptic, more direct, and far more comforting without getting syrupy. The title track sets the tone. A patient pulse, a glassy synth halo, and those human snippets that flicker in and out like streetlights from a moving tram. Its reassuring without tipping into platitude. Seething follows a different path. The beat shoulders a little more weight and the synths snarl at the edges, but the vocals keep it buoyant. You Are Good And I Love You is the one I keep coming back to. Its almost embarrassingly sincere as a phrase, but the band sidestep any cringe by underplaying it. The arrangement stays spare, the melody does the heavy lifting, and the song lands like a note on the fridge when you need it most. Nothing Much is another highlight, a slow unfurl that rewards patience, the hooks revealing themselves in soft focus. Those collected voice notes are more than a gimmick. They sit in the mix like field recordings, a texture as much as a message. In interviews around the release the band talked about wanting to bottle small acts of care and send them back into the world. You can hear that in the way a whispered line rides the reverb tail of a piano chord, or how a creak of a chair becomes part of the rhythm. It nudges the album toward an ambient pop zone, yet theres still that Nordic art pop precision theyre known for. On vinyl, the production opens up. Lowly vinyl has always rewarded a proper sit down, and Keep Up The Good Work is no exception. The low end is warm but not muddy, the top end is all shimmer, and the vocals float in a way that feels almost tactile. If youre the kind who flips through a Melbourne record store on a Saturday and picks on vibe, file this near your dream pop and soft focus electronica, then take it home for the after dinner stretch. The title track is a lovely needle drop test, and You Are Good And I Love You comes alive when the room is quiet and the lights are low. If youre hunting for Keep Up The Good Work vinyl or trying to buy Lowly records online, this one earns a spot on the short list. It sits neatly with other Lowly albums on vinyl and plays well across seasons. Part of the albums appeal is how it reframes optimism as a craft. The band sound like theyve grown into a quieter confidence since 2019, less interested in showy left turns, more invested in getting the feeling right. The melodies are strong, the pacing unfussy, and the little production choices stick with you. A clipped hi hat here, an organ sigh there, a shared breath before a chorus. These are small, human things. They add up. If youre in Australia and you like your shelves at least as comforting as your playlists, its an easy recommendation alongside other vinyl records Australia fans have been snapping up lately. Keep Up The Good Work is a soft beacon of a record, the sort you press into a friends hands with a quiet smile. Not because it will blow their head off, but because it cares enough to check in. Thats a rare and beautiful thing. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review