Today, Lowertown, the New York duo of Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg, have shared a new video for “Forgive Yourself,” which is taken from their critically acclaimed new album, Ugly Duckling Union (out now via Summer Shade).
The video is released ahead of the band’s much-anticipated UK and EU tour dates, which began last night at The Grand Social in Dublin and includes a London date at Hackney’s Oslo on 7th Sept. The tour follows an extensive North American run and will mark the band’s first UK shows in three years – full routing below.
The lo-fi fever dream-like video (directed by Reno Silver) see the duo hold up in their apartment as the world comes to an end. A blunt yet compassionate meditation on shame, “Forgive Yourself” is one of the album’s most memorable moments, as the hook-led vocals come alive in chorus to sing-shout “And it’s you who can’t make a sacrifice / And it’s you who can’t make the same mistake twice / It’s hard to forgive, it’s hard to forgive yourself”.
Speaking on the track, Osby says “This song was written after a breakup where neither party was at fault, and both of us greatly loved each other, but I saw myself not feeling capable of handling the relationship and becoming a person I didn’t like to the one I loved. I began to be consumed by an immense amount of shame, guilt, and self-hatred.
Forgive yourself is quite literally about learning to forgive yourself after facing your shadow self. It’s about not getting sucked into the shame and guilt and being able to accept your imperfections and the wrongdoings of the past. It’s about still being able to love yourself despite your mistakes and faults and being able to let go and move forward.
We are all imperfect beings that are bound to make mistakes and hurt each other but are still deserving of love and forgiveness.
These lyrics take a much different tone than previous Lowertown albums. They come from a more removed and arial view. They are written from a bandaged, healing wound rather than a fresh, bleeding cut. Still sore and sensitive, but not an immediate unfiltered reaction to a feeling. Lyrics in previous albums came from a place of me (the author) being helplessly affected by everything around, a victim reacting to different people and situations. Instead of being a pinball, deflecting and reacting to these things, I am empowered in the situation, where I’m realizing my own agency and how I affect others, instead of just how they affect me.”
EU/UK 2026 Tour Dates:
September 1st – Dublin, IRE @ The Grand Social
September 3rd – Leeds, UK @ Belgrave Music Hall
September 4th – Glasgow, UK @ Nice n Sleazy
September 5th – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Psychfest @ YES (Basement)
September 6th – Bristol, UK @ Exchange
September 7th – London, UK @ Oslo
September 9th – Paris, FR @ Chinois
September 12th – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso (Upstairs)
September 15th – Cologne, DE @ Bumann & Sohn
September 16th – Hamburg, DE @ Reeperbahn Festival
September 18th – Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree
September 19th – Copenhagen, DK @ Forbrændingen
September 22nd – Schorndorf, DE @ Manufaktur
September 23rd – Aarau, CH @ KIFF
September 24th – Torino, IT @ Spazio 211
September 25th – Milano, IT @ Arci Bellezza
September 26th – Rome, IT @ Wishlist
Tickets are available via lowertown.band
