Here’s a little background: Matthew J Tow first gained attention through Australian psychedelic band Drop City. Hailing from Sydney’s inner city, Drop City’s combination of pop melodies and lush psychedelic textures saw the trio gain a reputation in Australia throughout the nineties as kings of the acid-soaked soliloquy. Drop City achieved considerable success, releasing five albums and touring all over the world with like-minded artists such as Stereolab, the Hoodoo Gurus, Luna, You Am I, the Posies, Plush and the Stone Roses. Drop City chose to end alongside the millennium.

In 2000, Tow took time off from music and travelled through the US and UK. He hooked up with long time friend Anton Newcombe from the Brian Jonestown Massacre and began writing new songs. Tow then returned to Australia with the idea of starting a new group. The sound in his head resembled the pioneering spirit of latter-period Beatles and Bowie, the psychedelia of artists such as Soft Machine and the Zombies, and the classic heartfelt pop of The Waterboys and Elliott Smith. Enter The Lovetones.

The Lovetones long-awaited second album, Meditations, will be released in October 2005 through Tee Pee Records with a US tour to follow. Meditations reveals a further development of Tow’s songwriting craft combining introspective lyrics and impeccable pop smarts with a penchant for dizzying space-rock psychedelia thrown into the mix for good measure. Fourteen tracks of magically lush, other-wordly delights.