DOWNWARD redefines itself with LP2

Some bands start with a plan. Downward wasn’t one of them. Drew Richardson and Tollie Pugh have been playing together since they were kids, running through high school band iterations until something stuck. “The name came from Hum, but it’s just a word. There really are no good band names left. The Killers took the last one,” Richardson jokes. But there’s nothing random about what Downward has become. The Tulsa-based band just dropped LP2 on New Morality Zine, a self-titled sophomore record that Richardson calls “sort of a second debut.” It’s an evolution, built from years of refining their sound—balancing