In the middle of recording for her band Lowertown, Olivia O. figured out how to make her own independent EP — ‘Incredible Big Nothing’ — enlivened by an ‘seriously mental year,’ ‘seclusion,’ a major move and significant profession moves.
You may know Olivia O. for being one portion of the non mainstream dream group Lowertown, however she’s advising her own “transitioning” story on her independent EP Great Big Nothing that came out on June 10. It has every one of the attributes of such a story — changing into adulthood, moving to another spot, wrestling with “separation,” managing “the existential fear of getting more established,” and in general managing a “strongly mental year” — that Olivia said means an extremely “crude and enthusiastic” lo-fi listening experience that she concedes “doesn’t feel exceptionally cleaned” and is “unpleasant around the edges” at focuses. This gives the EP a legitimacy of what it’s truly similar to be a 19-year-old in another city and new industry, that an all the more all around manicured pop collection may not offer, particularly thinking about that Olivia did the EP’s instrumentation and creation herself. To summarize it, it’s a “private investigate my life,” Olivia said.
“At the point when I was making this [EP], I was in London. What’s more, it was the first occasion when I’d like at any point lived without anyone else,” Olivia disclosed to TheMagazineCity. The vocalist isn’t from the U.K., you see: she’s from Atlanta, where she and individual numerical class accomplice Avsha Weinberg shaped a music association in secondary school. This cleared route to the colleagues and bandmates marking with a record name, Dirty Hit — which is based out of London — where thew traveled to record an EP with a maker and met the entire record name group. It was an encounter that offered the two limits of the entire going-to-another-country range; it was “truly cool, yet in addition truly insane,” Olivia said.
“Since that whole year, similar to we were in, you know, COVID what not… I kind of remained inside my home in Atlanta for like most of that year until we went to London and it resembled a totally unique encounter from anything I’d had that whole year,” she clarified. “And furthermore, I simply kind of fell head over heels for the city. Like I certainly need to move there sooner or later, yet better believe it, simply every one of those new encounters and like gathering each one of those craftsmen and like individuals there was… one of like… the most moving and educational things I’ve had in like, seemingly forever. Better believe it, it resembled a major subject in a great deal of my music I composed after that.”
In spite of every one of these new chances, it was as yet an inside and out “overpowering experience” to do such an excess of “during lockdown in the wintertime,” Olivia admitted, since she was almost alone. “I truly had like, exceptionally insignificant human correspondence outside of my bandmate and my photographic artist… it was very much like, the most segregating experience I’ve at any point had… I was certainly adapting to the entirety of that at that point, which was truly unpleasant,” Olivia conceded. This by itself time additionally meant a great deal of reasoning time; Olivia sat without anyone else for “inordinate times of times” in which she’d delve herself into these bunny “openings” of thought.
These sensations of confinement in another city are reflected in the EP’s lead single, “All I Want,” in which Olivia sings mixed lines like “bye harmony and through and through freedom” set against melancholic guitars. The melody “epitomizes my developing comprehension of adulthood as I’ve moved out and gotten more seasoned and wrestling with my sensations of disengagement and inconvenience in another, new climate,” Olivia clarified in the tune’s official statement, and expounded on this trans1ition from secondary school to adulthood as she talked about the individual topics in her EP with TheMagazineCity.
“I certainly was wrestling with getting more established and simply the heaviness of like, access, or simply more duties accumulating as you like age and you move out of the house,” Olivia clarified. “Since as I was composing this music, I just graduated secondary school, and I was somewhat choosing how I needed to manage my life… I either needed to set off for college or take a stab at seeking after music, which was even more a dangerous way.”
Olivia was additionally feeling “existential” during the making of this EP. “It’s simply been a, as, strongly mental year for me, I presume. Nust a great deal of central issues I’ve been asking myself, which I’ve never truly pondered… very much like the existential fear of getting more seasoned, I surmise, or simply each one of those new duties that you get, as, as you age and stuff.”
Like “All I Want,” the remainder of the EP is the ideal agonizing music to pay attention to as fans engage their own “central issues” and face “uncertainties,” which the vocalist said she trusted individuals around her age could identify with while paying attention to the new task. Basically, it’s the ideal soundtrack for the contemplations you face alone in your room at 12 PM, which bodes well thinking about that Olivia got her beginning in music by dabbling with room fly on her PC at 14 years of age. While the new EP actually has that lo-fi grit soul — Olivia confessed to paying attention to ’90s grit, and different impacts like Elliott Smith and Sonic Youth at that point — she recognized that the EP is likewise a confirmation of how her own creation has “improved” contrasted with what she’d make messing about on Garageband as a youthful teenager. “This is simply kind of a documentation of, similar to, me developing as a maker and an artist, since like from my initial stuff ’till now you can see, similar to, a major development. Also, it’s all done by me,” Olivia called attention to.
Olivia O. with her Lowertown bandmate, Avsha Weinberg. [Instagram/@lowrtown]
While Great Big Nothing is its own story about growing up in both the EP’s sound and topics, the narrative of how Olivia met Avsha and in the long run shaped Lowertown together likewise seems like a story you could lift up off the selves of the YA segment of Barnes and Noble. Everything began when Olivia moved secondary schools her sophomore year and met Avsha through a similar companion gathering of “music and like elective children,” she reviewed with a chuckle. It was an excursion to Canada, however, that started their music travels together; by then, they were “extremely close.”
“What’s more, when we were in Canada, we concluded we should simply make like a gather as one, since each and every individual who did music at my school was a person. Also, I felt exceptionally left out. Also, this is the way I felt a great deal of the time,” Olivia conceded. “There’s consistently a great deal of folks in this like, class, making music and there’s not as numerous young ladies. Also, I don’t have the foggiest idea, I generally felt truly unreliable, in light of the fact that I wasn’t as great at like playing guitar as most of them and other stuff. Furthermore, I resembled, ‘Yo, similar to, we should simply make an undertaking together. Since like, I haven’t made music with anyone previously. Also, I generally feel like truly unreliable that like no one needs to work with me.’ And he resembled, ‘Definitely, I clearly need to work with you… no one resembles needing to move toward you since they’re truly, as, scared or something.’ And I resembled, ‘Alright,’ so we wound up doing that our first collection, our lesser year of secondary school. Also, we just got truly genuine about it since the time this since we functioned admirably together. Furthermore, no doubt, we simply have something similar, similar to, hard working attitude, I surmise… we simply can push each other truly hard. Also, it’s truly decent.”
Lowertown is currently coming out with another undertaking — which Olivia and Avsha recorded in London — which is coming out a couple of months after Olivia’s independent EP. Like Great Big Nothing, this new task will be not quite the same as their past DIY endeavors, given that they’ve updated from a cellar to a studio. All things considered, a great deal of significant changes are occurring in Olivia’s story about growing up. “So I’m actually similar to extremely high,” she said.
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