LOWKEY ANNOUNCES RETURN WITH NEW TRACK, ALBUM AND TOUR! (@Lowkey0nline)

By Rishma • On What is New

RETURN OF LOWKEY

Lowkey has announced his long awaited return with news that will be music to the ears of every hip hop fan in the land. After a hiatus which saw the Brit­ish-Iraqi hip hop artist take time off to focus on stud­ies and act­iv­ism, he blasts back into view with brand new music for 2019 – announ­cing a new album and first single from it.

Drop­ping a single each month in the lead up to the album release, the aptly named first effort ‘The Return Of Lowkey’ does what it says on the tin. The 7 minute epic is a true state­ment of intent, mark­ing a line in the sand where his next chapter begins, show­cas­ing his bars and craft as a lyr­ic­al social com­ment­at­or he is so famed for. It also fea­tures testi­mon­ies from Akala, Charlie Sloth and Ghetts in sup­port of his work. Speak­ing about the track he says:

“I am happy to be back mak­ing music again and am greatly look­ing for­ward to bring­ing this track on the road for the April tour. In a sense this song was a col­lab­or­at­ive effort between myself and the audi­ence at a Manchester gig. The vocals heard in the chor­us are a live record­ing taken from a sold out gig we did at the Gor­illa ven­ue in 2016.”

Early sup­port has come from Toddla T who premiered it on his Radio 1 show, whilst GRM Daily host the offi­cial music video. Fur­ther sup­port has come from Bobby Fric­tion who has already made it his Record Of The Week on BBC Asi­an Net­work. In recent weeks Lowkey has spoken at the Oxford Uni­on and has just announced a head­line show at The Roy­al Albert Hall with Lyrix Organix on 27th Feb­ru­ary – tick­ets and info here.

‘The Return Of Lowkey’ is taken from the highly anti­cip­ated album ‘Soundtrack To The Struggle 2’ which is out on his own label on 7th April 2019. The album acts as a sequel to his last offi­cial album, 2011’s highly acclaimed ‘Soundtrack To The Struggle’ which at the time BBC’s Charlie Slothdescribed as “the best album of the year, no prob­ably THE best album of the past few years period!”

 High­lights from the album include ‘Ghosts of Gren­fell (feat Mai Khalil)’ and ‘Ahmed’, both of which act as bench­marks for the qual­ity of songs through­out the album. Offi­cial videos for such tracks have garnered mil­lions of views on You­Tube and Face­book with sup­port com­ing from Lilly Allen, Rus­sell Brand, Frankie Boyle, JME and many oth­er influ­en­tial fig­ures. ‘Ghosts Of Gren­fell’ song was fea­tured heav­ily on BBC Radio 4’s World At One where Lowkey has been inter­viewed sev­er­al times, whilst MP for Kens­ing­ton, Emma Dent Coad described him as a “poet laur­eate for Gren­fell Tower.”

Music­ally, per­haps best known for his two explos­ive and thought pro­vok­ing Fire In the Booth free­styles, his socially con­scious approach to hip hop sets him apart from most of his con­tem­por­ar­ies. Sit­ting in a space along­side long time col­lab­or­at­or Akala, Lowkey uses his music to chal­lenge the status quo and injustices both at home in Lon­don and worldwide.

 ‘Soundtrack To The Struggle 2’ album out 7th April

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Rishma

Edit­or / PR Con­sult­ant at No Bounds
Rishma Dhali­w­al has extens­ive exper­i­ence study­ing and work­ing in the music and media industry. Hav­ing writ­ten a thes­is on how Hip Hop acts as a social move­ment, she has spent years research­ing and con­nect­ing with artists who use the art form as a tool for bring­ing a voice to the voiceless.

About Rishma

Rishma Dhaliwal has extensive experience studying and working in the music and media industry. Having written a thesis on how Hip Hop acts as a social movement, she has spent years researching and connecting with artists who use the art form as a tool for bringing a voice to the voiceless.