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Dot Music

It's not too ambitious to suggest few other releases this year will match its grace, humanity and power.... A magnificent album.

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Entertainment Weekly

Just plain beautiful... carefully harmonized vocals and pellucid guitar hooks that rarely lapse into merely languid melodies. [2/16/2001, p.98]

New Musical Express

Low have always sought to make music that can both swell the heart like a gospel tune and capture the amplified absence of a funeral parlour. It's difficult to imagine a more perfect expression of their vision than this.

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Mojo

Measuring out grief and resilience with a steady hand, these are the best songs of Low's quiet career. [Feb 2001, p.98]

CDNow

Low has crafted a recording that exceeds its own high standards of creativity, harmony, and subtlety.

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Magnet

Low is the heaviest band in rock. [#48, p.100]

All Music Guide

Things We Lost in the Fire's slowly rising warmth and subtly hopeful tone not only make this Low's most cohesive, compelling collection, but one of 2001's best albums.

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Neumu.net

Things We Lost in the Fire finds Low enamoured with harmonies, drawing from such disparate sources as Swans, the Beatles, Wire, and Simon & Garfunkel.

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Almost Cool

Low continues to create beautiful music.

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Low proves enormously versatile here, exploring musically and maturing lyrically.

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PopMatters

Things finds Low's measured atmospherics and gentle melodies further enhanced by layers of instrumentation -- for instance, cello, violin, piano, mellotron and trumpet. Moreover, it finds the band's melancholy and affecting textures coalescing even more into traditional song structures.

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Pitchfork

Things We Lost in the Fire's high points are, without question, the best they've done.

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Revolver

Probably the best indie drone rock since Galaxie 500 put the Velvets jangle to hypnotic use (although Low reach even greater peaks of elegant sublimity). [#4, p.106]

Alternative Press

Sparhawk and Parker's boy/girl vocals, Low's overall light instrumentation, and their minimalist approach to compostition all blend to produce an exquisite lethargy that's as haunting as Damon & Naomi's music. [#153, p.78]

Ink Blot Magazine

The voices are front and center throughout, but the trio has wrought its most elaborate frames for them yet: brass, strings, and distorted guitars amplify the songs' sentiments and reinforce the cumulative strength of their melodies.

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Spin

It's impossible to discern whether Mimi Parker's newfound assertiveness as a harmony singer was inspired by, or the inspiration for, this more aggressive batch of songs, but it's this record's signal grace. [Apr 2001, p.158]

The Wire

Low's original stark minimalism has gradually given way to a broader sonic range, without sacrificing their strangely accessible otherness. [#204, p.68]

Nude As The News

Low's most accomplished album yet, if not its most creative.

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Spin Cycle

As unhurried and sonically majestic a slab as Low has ever produced.

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Wall of Sound

For each misstep (like the relentless snare drum on the opening track "Sunflower") there are moments of sublime beauty like "Laser Beam," which feels more like a prayer than a song.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 9.6 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes

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Duncan B gave it a9:
A very lovely album.

frederik w gave it a10:
one of the best low albums i've heard! It grabs you by the throat.

tony J gave it a 10:
speechless

Andrew T gave it a 10:
Late night music, a chill out, feel the stress ooze out as you sink lower and lower into your soul...P>

Adley A gave it a 10:
This record that can push one to drive on the wrong side of the road without noticing or blinking an eye. Albini is at his best creating a lush grit that could not be replicated by any other producer. The songs are simply human.

Æ . gave it a 9:
great album, very beautiful indeed.

Stroszek gave it a 10:
Great, forever. A record who pushes Low's boundaries in their quest to amplify the modesty of our souls. Pure beauty - fucking emo. Word up.

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