Kučka

Australian producer Laura Jane Lowther, who records as KUČKA, crafts surreal experimental pop built from stacked glitch textures, found sounds, fragile rhythms, and airy vocals. Acclaim has greeted projects such as the 2015 EP Unconditional, and she has collected multiple Australian honors while collaborating with A$AP Rocky, Flume, and SOPHIE.

Her self-titled debut EP, tracked in a Perth bedroom studio, surfaced in 2012. Praise for the experimental electro-pop of tracks like “Divinity” prompted a reissue on New Weird Australia’s Wood and Wire imprint. Another cut from the same release, “Polly (serialkillersundays),” earned the West Australian Music Song of the Year Award in the Experimental category. The next year brought the single “Phantasy” and a collaboration with A$AP Rocky, who sampled her track “I” for the title song of his debut album Long.Live.A$AP and enlisted her for backing vocals on that cut and “Fashion Killer.” She also claimed victory in the Path to Laneway contest, securing a performance slot at Laneway Festival. In 2014 the single “Unconditional” earned five WAM Award nominations and three wins—Best Single, Best Experimental Act, and Best Electronic Act.

The Unconditional EP followed in 2015, bringing further recognition that included WAM Awards for Best Electronic Producer and Best Experimental Act plus an invitation to the Red Bull Music Academy. That same year she teamed with Cosmo’s Midnight on “Walk with Me” and guested on recordings by Seth Sentry, Andre Eremin, and Simo Soo. In 2016 Lowther issued another Unconditional single, “Honey,” joined Paces for “Nothing’s Forever,” and appeared on Flume’s album Skin. She featured on Vince Staples’ 2017 album Big Fish Theory and returned to Flume’s circle for “Voices,” a SOPHIE collaboration included on the 2019 mixtape Hi This Is Flume. The solo single “Drowning” arrived later that year.