Heavy Lifter

The duo’s third album is a nostalgic indie-pop rumination on suburban teenhood that thrums with hopeful energy. The best songs are like dispatches from a cracking cocoon.

Austin duo are on masterly form on new LP

'Heavy Lifter' is the work of musicians who are not content to merely repeat themselves—a noble impulse—but one that didn't…

An Austin-based indie rock duo whose intimate, rough-hewn sound across their first two albums owed a large debt to '90s slowcore, Hovvdy collaborated with an outside co-producer for the first time for third album Heavy Lifter.

Hovvdy have quietly become masters of creating comforting, wistful slowcore, set against backdrops of late humid summer nights in the bush,...