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Sep 14, 2018Double Negative is an album that will endure for a long time. It’s a thrilling development that proves how Low continue to release music of extremely high standards, restlessly creative and never content to stand still.
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Sep 14, 2018This ranks alongside the likes of Anselm Kiefer and Cormac McCarthy as a document of contemporary social collapse, and as such is the most important, devastating album of the year.
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Aug 29, 2018Not since Bon Iver’s aforementioned reinvention or even Radiohead’s Kid A have a relatively mainstream band made such an assured volte-face, wilfully pushing their audience away while they revisit, remake and remodel the tension that made them so very precious in the first place. Fierce and beautiful. Low are back.
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Sep 17, 2018The result is that rarest of prizes for a band that’s hit 25 years old: a record that stands not only as a genuine step forward in their body of work but also as one of their very best, an album as harrowing and transportive as anything else they’ve done.
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Sep 13, 2018An album rich in darkness and in texture, finding Low in experimental sublimity, further reminding us that their range has only gotten exceptionally larger and better over time.
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Sep 13, 2018It is an astonishing album, cohesive but wide ranging, sometimes presenting Low as they were, more often seeing the trio forge on until guitars dissolve, words dissolve, flesh dissolves and everything becomes pure light.
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Sep 13, 2018One of the most masterful things about the album is the way it flows, highlighting fugitive detail the way clothing highlights body parts, abandoning the traditional ups and downs of verse/chorus structure. Double Negative owes this poise to its intentional construction--a collaboration and a transferring of creative heft
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Sep 13, 2018A dystopian masterpiece.
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Sep 11, 2018The pop-y moments of Double Negative interchange with the heavy elements, the minimal investigations to create this kaleidoscopic sensation. It is what Low have been doing for a long time, but this is the record where they do it best.
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UncutAug 29, 2018Double Negative is their biggest step forward to date, an album that scrambles their sound completely; it sounds nothing like Low and everything like Low. ... Low have made what might be their most relevant album, one that holds a mirror up tot he world. [Oct 2018, p.18]
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Sep 14, 2018The album is like a discovery of a new mutation of still-recognizable DNA. And finally this new strain of sound isn’t just bold for Low; it’s just plain bold.
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Under The RadarSep 10, 2018While a somewhat disorientating experience, this is Low's most challenging and interesting record for sometime. [Aug - Oct 2018, p.79]
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Sep 28, 2018The songs not only feel like they exist in a vacuum, but that they demand the listener create one too. It’s an important and serious album because it forces you to experience it as one, it asserts itself as the only thing you can concentrate on.
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The WireSep 21, 2018Double Negative stands alongside Yo La Tengo’s There’s A Riot Going On as a painfully honest expression of what it’s like to live in a post-truth country and have to call it your own. [Oct 2018, p.58]
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Sep 18, 2018With Double Negative, Low maintain all fronts of their fanbase. All the elements of the bands chilling atmospheres are there.
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Sep 13, 2018Double Negative is a magnificent and courageous record, if you’re ready for it.
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Q MagazineAug 29, 2018This is the sound of Low finding extremity in a new, thrilling way. [Oct 2018, p.112]
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Sep 19, 2018Double Negative is a brave and thoughtful collection of songs that lets Low's beating heart scream for its life against a world without compassion, and if it isn't much fun, in 2018 it's truly necessary.
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Sep 13, 2018Double Negative asks much of listeners, but what you get in return is positive to say the least.
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Sep 14, 2018The result is fearless and impressive, but often lacking in the kind of inviting musicality that encourages repeat listening. It’s a headphones record that holds its audience at a distance: admirably fascinating, but rarely addictive.
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MojoAug 29, 2018Some of the vocal processing, though pushed to the extreme, will be a little familiar to Bon Iver fans/sceptics. Persevere, though, and yet more classic Low songs emerge from the post-apocalyptic murk. [Oct 2018, p.87]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 50 out of 63
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Mixed: 7 out of 63
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Negative: 6 out of 63
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Sep 15, 2018
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Sep 19, 2018
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Sep 17, 2018Ugliness and beauty all the same. My favorite Low album ever. Wonderful surprise for a 12th album.