On husk, the debut album from Baltimore-born artist and producer Low.bō, love doesn’t arrive clean or heroic. It unravels. It bleeds into the shadows of memory, leaves residue in the spaces we try to shed, and lingers in the silence after everything falls apart. Released September 3rd, husk is a 12-track odyssey that merges alternative textures with R&B sensuality, indie grit, and grunge melancholy—an intimate yet expansive debut that feels like both confession and confrontation.

Written, produced, and performed by Low.bō himself, the record is a slow-motion autopsy of connection: cyclical, obsessive, tender, and destructive. “It’s about what we carry and what we lose,” he says. “And what we’re left with when the dust settles.”

Soundtracking the Aftermath

Opening with the atmospheric “EASTSIDE”, Low.bō grounds listeners in Baltimore—the city that raised him, and the place he both outgrew and still belongs to. From there, the album dives into the groove-driven “AQUARIUS + LEO,” where chemistry burns messy and dangerous, before pulling into the psychedelic fog of “EVIL EYE! (ft. Elujay),” reimagined with lush production from Cruza.

Tracks like “REDLINE” and “c’est la vie” surface the toxic cycles that threaten to define love, while “FALLOUT” breaks through with a falsetto-soaked reckoning, cracked wide open by regret. On the title track, “husk,” emptiness becomes its own form of presence, while the skeletal “party’s over” offers intimacy so raw it feels like eavesdropping. The closing stretch—“LIMBO,” “blur,” “niya (ft. Estephanie),” and the ambiguous “lines”—doesn’t resolve. Instead, it floats, haunted by unfinished stories and the truth that love rarely wraps itself up neatly.

The Making of Low.bō

Raised in Baltimore singing gospel in church and training his eye as a photographer, Low.bō found music in the depths of depression and isolation. A self-taught producer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist, he forged his sound through resilience—channeling pain into art, texture into testimony.

Already a name to watch, he’s been spotlighted by SXSW (Official Artist 2023) and praised by The Needle Drop, COLORS x STUDIOS, Billboard, OVO Sound Radio, and more. His previous projects, CIRCA (2023) and IMPALA (2024), hinted at his potential. But with husk, he delivers a work that feels definitive—a body of music that doesn’t just trace heartbreak but transforms it into a cinematic narrative.

Stepping Into the Next Chapter

husk is not a clean debut; it’s a raw one. It’s the sound of someone unlearning the rules of love and relearning how to feel at all. For Low.bō, that’s the point. Love is unfinished, memory is unfinished, and art—at its most alive—remains unfinished too.

Low.bō’s husk is available now on all platforms.