The Tucson, Arizona, quintet LO BLOW define themselves as “five gentlemen making music that they want to hear, some heavy-hitting drums with crashing waves of distortion and lyrics designed to provoke thought.” Fair enough. We’re premiering the video for their latest track, “New Heirs.”
“‘New Heirs’ is a track inspired by Dolores Cannon’s career as a hypnotherapist specializing in past life regression,” explains frontman Matthew Muir. “In one of her books, The Three Waves Of Volunteers And The New Earth, Dolores goes into detail about the call that went out for volunteers to help the Earth in its ascension after the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. It is a reminder to the next generation that they are the rightful heirs to the world. With their fresh eyes on the work the adults have done here, we might begin to see the change needed to resort the peace and abundance for all.”
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LO BLOW are actively encouraging listeners to seek knowledge and enlightenment. Muir offers a quote from late-1800s essayist Ernst Fischer as a mission statement. “In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable, and help to change it.”
“LO BLOW is an open invitation to truly contemplate our actions,” says Muir. “Everything we are talking about, everything we are doing to ourselves and the planet. The goal of these works of art is to begin a long-overdue conversation, extending to the listener an invitation to re-imagine the world.”
Muir isn’t some neophyte elbowing his way to the digital dinner table for attention. His previous creative avenues have included CONS alongside Jeremy Talley (the Bled) as well as that band’s prior incarnation with the late Tyson Stevens (Scary Kids Scaring Kids), Coma Prevail.
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The song begins with an atmospheric, moody grunge vibe somewhere between mid-’90s Pearl Jam and Failure. Muir and his bandmates heat it up accordingly with a stridency that’s been lacking in the underground as of late. The track was recorded by Beau Burchell (Saosin) and mastered by former Defeater guitarist Jay Maas.
Seek out some knowledge, whether its LO BLOW’s solid jam or Muir’s reading list suggestions. Some things you can’t go wrong with.