Low Blows (album)

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Low Blows
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Studio album by
Released14 July 2017
Studio Niles City Sound, Fort Worth, Texas
Fitzroy, Victoria
Genre Indie pop
Label littleBIGMAN, Universal Music Australia
Producer Austin Jenkins, Josh Block, Chris Vivion
Meg Mac chronology
MegMac
(2014)
Low Blows
(2017)
Hope
(2019)
Singles from Low Blows
  1. "Low Blows"
    Released: 31 March 2017 [1]
  2. "Maybe It's My First Time"
    Released: 2 June 2017
  3. "Don't Need Permission"
    Released: 29 June 2017

Low Blows is the debut studio album by Australian singer-songwriter, Meg Mac. The album was recorded in Texas in the US and Victoria, Australia. [2] It was released on 14 July 2017.

Contents

Mac said she wanted to aim for a live sound: "A lot of the vocal performances are live and unedited. It is hard to leave mistakes on a record but I think it was important to do that." [3]

At the J Awards of 2017, the album was nominated for Australian Album of the Year. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Grace Gold" – 3:48
  2. "Low Blows" – 3:32
  3. "Kindness" – 3:23
  4. "Cages" – 3:42
  5. "Didn't Wanna Get So Low But I Had To" – 3:51
  6. "Ride It" – 4:05
  7. "Maybe It's My First Time" – 3:33
  8. "Shiny Bright" – 3:20
  9. "Brooklyn Apartment (It's Louder Than the TV and the Radio)" – 3:19
  10. "Morning" – 1:39
  11. "Every Lie" (acoustic live) – 3:25 (pre-order only)
  12. "Never Be" (acoustic live) – 3:51 (pre-order only)
  13. "Saint Philomene" (acoustic live) – 4:16 (pre-order only)

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [5] 2

Release history

CountryDateFormatLabelCatalogue
Australia [6] [7] [8] 14 July 2017 CD, digital download, vinyl littleBIGMAN Records, Universal Music Australia 5754966

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