Lookers Go ‘Deeper’ with Their “Alone” Single & Music Video [Premiere]

As they move forward toward the release of their debut album, Lookers is leaving a positive first impression. We introduced you to their first single with the premiere of “Bury You Under” a couple of months ago. Now the Providence, Rhode Island group returns with the debut of the music video for “Alone.” It will all culminate with the release of their debut album, Deeper, on April 25th via Almost Ready Records. “Bury You Under” and “Alone” are cleverly selected singles to help get you to know the band because, musically, they stand in stark opposition to each other.

While “Bury You Under” is a heavier synth track about a vengeful fantasy, “Alone” is a shoegaze-inspired song pontificating on love and solitude. It’s more solemn and reflective sounding, with an early ’90s classic alternative feel. The music video has an interesting way of emphasizing “aloneness,” as it’s really more of a personal engagement between you and the poetry and passion of vocalist Muggs Fogarty.

Discussing the song, Fogarty states:

“‘Alone’ represents our softer side, the melancholic moment of the record. I think we made something really beautiful. Uncomplicated but complex. The record has a lot of high-energy, flirty, angsty, danceable songs. ‘Alone’ is a moment to reflect and feel something honest. Sometimes your connections only breed disappointment and confusion, so you’ve got to stay in good standing with your own solitude.”

Fogarty and guitarist Rafay Rashid go way back as songwriting partners, and that experience shines through on Deeper. Much of the album focuses on the complexity of desire and its many dimensions. The eroticism of it, the desperation, its highs, its lows. Through the recording process, Fogarty and Rashid complemented each other in an interesting way. Fogarty’s poetry and Rashid’s musical instincts played well off of each other, meshing together as you might expect from songwriters who have been working together for over a decade. Their noise pop tendencies sound very current, but there are enough odes back to Pixies-era noise pop to make any fan of the genre happy. Deeper stands as an exciting debut from a band that already knows where it wants to go and how it wants to get there.

Deeper Track Listing:

1. Midnight TV Dinner
2. Deeper
3. Animal
4. Alone
5. Bury You Under
6. Body Bag
7. Depressed
8. Thing
9. Crisis
10. Dead

Lookers ‘Deeper’ album artwork, by Mary Lindberg