LO MOON TO PERFORM AT SXSW MUSIC FESTIVAL IN AUSTIN NEXT MONTH

psych-pop four-piece Lo Moon announce several planned live performances at SXSW Music Festival, set to kick off March 8 in Austin, TX. Their jam-packed schedule includes performances at St. David’s Historic Sanctuary on Wednesday, March 13, a KCSN Showcase at the Austin Convention Center on Thursday, March 14, performances at Austin City Limits Radio Live/KGSR at the Hotel Van Zandt and the Friends:Forever showcase (presented by Jaded) on Friday, March 15 at the Empire Control Room & Garage and an appearance Saturday, March 16 at the All Are Welcome Showcase taking place at the Mohawk Outdoor Stage. For a full list of upcoming live performances, please visit www.lomoonofficial.com/tour.

Last month about, Lo Moon announced the forthcoming release of their highly anticipated third studio album, I Wish You Way More Than Luck, due out April 5 via Thirty Tigers / The Orchard. To coincide with the announcement, the band revealed two new tracks, including focus single, “Water” and a b-side “Connecticut,” which Marvin Magazine hailed as “masterfully crafted” and “tantalizing,” proclaiming, “‘Water’ and ‘Connecticut’ beckon listeners into Lo Moon’s sonic universe.” “Water” is currently charting on AAA radio, thanks to plays on KEXP, XPN, KCRW and more. Both tracks were written by Matt Lowell and produced by Mike Vernon Davis(Ratboys, Pool Kids, Great Grandpa), with Alan Moulder (Depeche Mode, U2, Ride, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, The Smashing Pumpkins) mixing the record.

Accompanying the new music, an official Saoli Nash-directed music video for “Water.”  The video’s Creative Director, Warren Fu (Daft Punk, The Strokes, Depeche Mode, The Killers), a close friend and frequent collaborator from over the years, directed the band’s first music video for “Loveless.” 

Speaking about “Water,” Lo Moon’s Matt Lowell reveals, “Since all the songs on our new album were inspired by the moment I found my artistic voice as a teenager, I started Water with the riff on an acoustic guitar. It really reminded me of something I might play when I was sixteen. It felt whimsical and nostalgic and when the band jumped in it felt like refreshing new ground for us. A couple days before the song appeared I had re-read David Foster Wallace’s transcript of a commencement speech he gave at Kenyon College in 2005. It had a much more profound effect on me from the first time I read it, and I thought the last line of the speech I Wish You Way More Than Luck could work perfectly within the musical framework. In some ways the song felt like it came to us, it’s hard to explain when those things happen, but we’re happy it did.” 
 
“Water” and “Connecticut” offer fans the first taste of new music from Lo Moon in 2024, following the release of “Evidence” last year. The track was paired with an official music video, directed by Saoli Nash & Warren Fu.

Lo Moon comprises bassist/keyboardist Crisanta Baker, guitarist Sam Stewart, drummer Sterling Laws, and Lowell, the group’s singer, and chief songwriter. The band has toured with everyone from The War on Drugs, Phoenix, Glass Animals and Air to London Grammar, Chvrches, Metric, Muna and The Lemon Twigs.

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