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- Summary: The 12th full-length release for the indie rock trio was produced by B.J. Burton.
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- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 21
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Mixed: 1 out of 21
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Negative: 0 out of 21
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 2 out of 15
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Nov 18, 2018
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Sep 15, 2018
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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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Sep 17, 2018Ugliness and beauty all the same. My favorite Low album ever. Wonderful surprise for a 12th album.
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Sep 19, 2018
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Sep 15, 2018
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Sep 19, 2018
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