Release: Lowland Brothers - Over The Fence

Artiest/Band: Lowland Brothers Album: Over The Fence Release: 25 October 2025 Label: Underdog Records Format: CD/LP/DL/Digital Genre: Soul/Rock/Americana The French band consolidates its soul, rock, and Americana roots in a liberating and timeless second album. In 2021, Lowland Brothers, the first self-titled album by the band led by Nico Duportal (vocals, guitars, lyrics), Hugo Deviers (percussions, guitar, lyrics), and Max Genouel (bass, keyboards, lyrics),.......►►►

The French band consolidates its soul, rock, and Americana roots in a liberating and timeless second album. In 2021, Lowland Brothers, the first self-titled album by the band led by Nico Duportal (vocals, guitars, lyrics), Hugo Deviers (percussions, guitar, lyrics), and Max Genouel (bass, keyboards, lyrics), created an unprece- dented transatlantic bridge between soul, rock, and the woody sounds of Americana. "We have affinities with the Afro-American musical lands- cape, but our aim is to carry this baggage and take it elsewhere," explains the group, originally from the West and North of France.

Three years after Lowland Brothers, the band consolidates its foundations in Over The Fence, its successor to be released this fall. "Since the release of the first album, we have played a lot, given many concerts, and written a lot too," explains Nico Duportal about a homemade album, recorded between Nantes and Dunkirk, before being finalized at Guru Records studio in the suburbs of Nantes. "This process has been liberating," emphasizes Nico Duportal.

"This time, we really wanted to embrace the roots and DIY aspect of our production, while paying homage to the sound we admire and our own influences." 

For Lowland Brothers, these influences include, among others, the aesthetic of the reverb-heavy produc- tions of Colemine Records and Dan Auerbach on his Easy Eye Sound label, not to mention Boom-bap hip-hop and Togolese afro-funk. Between electric tension and kinetic atmospheres, Over The Fence offers a brilliant synthesis energized by the presence of Loris Marzotto on mixing, who managed to place Over The Fence in a resolutely contemporary setting. Nico Duportal: "We wanted to avoid the mothball effect at all costs, with

might not have allowed oursel- ves to do a fewdo a few years ago," enthuses Max Genouel, refer- ring to the creative letting go that characterizes the entire album, which is traversed by themes of fatherhood, transmission, and the experiences (individual and collec- tive) lived by the band members over the past few years. "‘Can You Hear Me?’ was written a long time ago, but we were not satis- fied with it. We had recorded a first version in the studio, but it was only when the three of us got together that we found the solu- tion," adds Hugo Deviers about one of the key tracks of Over The Fence.

"We always wanted to write these songs, but perhaps we didn’t fully own them. It was diffi- cult to take the plunge, but with this album, we went even further." More precisely, to the other side of the fence

OVER THE FENCE
RELEASED OCT 25, 2024
UNDERDOG RECORDS
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