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Generally favorable reviews- based on 63 Ratings
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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 11, 2021Fantastic, warm and weird. An artists album. From the alien sound of the instruments or ethereal sound of the vocals. Favourites: rome,always trying to work it out,fly,dissary,quorum.
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Mar 29, 2020The great experimental masterpiece they were kind of promising since their debut. Best record I’ve heard in 2019.
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Dec 7, 2018
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Nov 18, 2018
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Oct 26, 2018Can you imagine how hard it is to find a fresh take on a familiar sound? Somehow Low manage to pull this off, bringing their classic moody dark feelings into our Dystopian age. Some of the vocal harmonies sound like they could have came of a Bee Gees record ("Fly") which only makes them that more unsettling. A true masterpiece.
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Sep 29, 2018
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Sep 27, 2018I waited to write a review until after a few listens. This album is better than TWLITF, better than Drums and Guns. If you liked the last album, which I did very much, then think of that style of songwriting overlayed with some buzzy, distorted sorts of textures. Great songs + great sound + inventive production = best ever Low album.
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Sep 21, 2018Clearly their best since Things We Lost In the Fire,nothing short of brilliant...yes it's a bold new direction toward glitchy electronic landscapes so they might lose few longstanding fans during the process but the rest of us got something to cherish and celebrate.
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Sep 19, 2018
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Sep 19, 2018While the first half of this album is all but completely unlistenable, if you stick with it the songs on the back half range from horrendous to merely awful. This is not art. This is often not even music. This is pure pretentiousness.
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Sep 19, 2018A complete curveball from a band I've loved for a long time. Wrecked lullabies for a world careening out of control. A little bit of a difficult listen, especially at first, but there is still beauty even in Low's most hellish hymns.
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Sep 17, 2018Ugliness and beauty all the same. My favorite Low album ever. Wonderful surprise for a 12th album.
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Sep 15, 2018I've been a Low fan since the 90s and this may be my favorite album. The rough textures just seem to highlight the beautiful tension of these songs. A hundred listens in and I still find the music more rewarding each time through.
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Sep 15, 2018
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Sep 15, 2018Terrible album. Sometimes I wonder why people rage about elitist music critics that have no sense of what people actually want to listen to. Then you hear a piece of well reviewed trash like this and you can understand what people are talking about. Absolute unlistenable garbage.
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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 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.