• Band Name: Low
  • Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Mar 20, 2007
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  • Summary: The slowcore trio (including new bassist Matt Livingston) reunites with producer Dave Fridmann.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 33
  2. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. It's still identifiably Low, but richer and more diverse than before.
  2. What seemed like a radical departure two years ago now sounds like a waystation on the journey to this more disjointed, more fragmented, more demanding, and ultimately more rewarding work.
  3. Long, luscious songs and cinematic melancholy are their usual preserve; their eighth album see these traded in for short, sharp shocks, metallic percussion, bullet-brusque sound effects, and frequent references to war, hate and death.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. mleee
    10
    Some of the most amazing, haunting music I've ever heard. I absolutely love it and cannot stop listening to it.
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  2. RuthV
    10
    Incredibly progressive. Spot-on commentary regarding wartime.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. BobM.
    4
    A huge disappointment. The production sounds like the earliest stereophonic vinyl discs, where instruments and voices were placed at the extremities of the sound stage, leaving a sucked out centre stage. When listening to the tracks, through high quality headphones, music and lyrics take second place to the "arty-farty"electronica. My verdict: remix and Low will have a little masterpiece on their hands. Expand
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