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Yes, Low are just plain damn good and get more so by the year it would seem.
Their last record (not counting the new one, which I haven't heard) "The Great Destroyer" is actually my favourite by quite some distance - really simple, powerful songs and a really big, mighty sound.
I've always loved their songs and the sound of Alan & Mimi's voices, but was feeling that their "shhh... quiet!" thing was getting a little laboured, so to hear them stepping out and rocking it up was a joy... Joe Xmas talks above about going to see Low and not being able to hear them.. well I saw them on their last tour and Alan Sparhawk was in 'rock mode' at the front of the stage doing windmills on his guitar - it was a fantastic gig.
So, yes, more of that I say!
Sad that their bass player whose name no one can remember left - he was excellent.
"Songs for a Dead Pilot" by the way is another one I think is very good, but at completely the other end of the spectrum. It's less song-based, more like a kind of minimal sound experiment album in places - very strung out, wrecked, depressive. There's a track on it that's about 13 minutes long I think and mostly consists of a single guitar chord being quietly repeated through what sounds like a gigantic amp set-up so that bass overtones and decay-buzz slowly build up to speaker-buggering proportions... pretty hypnotic, in a downer sorta way, and the kind of thing that wouldn't have sounded out of place on the last Earth album. Affecting stuff. |
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