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Sep 10, 2015The album is assured and seductive, to the point that the despair underpinning so many of the songs isn’t immediately obvious.
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Sep 8, 2015Returning to some of the stylistic inroads made on its 2007 album Drums and Guns, Low builds a framework out of electronic static and subterranean feedback.
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Sep 8, 2015The band's strengths are here in abundance, but they are reimagined, twisted into new shapes and given a visceral intensity that is utterly irresistible.
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Sep 9, 2015It just needs to be a passionate, cathartic, connective emotional experience. For the most part, Ones and Sixes fits that bill.
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Sep 10, 2015It’s another subtly heart-rending effort from a band that remains one of the very finest in the world. If you needed a reminder of why Low are an institution then this is it.
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Sep 21, 2015With Ones and Sixes they’ve pulled together many of their disparate sides in a masterful survey of what makes them one of the great rock bands of their era.
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Aug 26, 2015Low have made one of the most impressive albums of their career and it still feels like their best work is ahead of them rather than stuck back in the past. [Oct 2015, p.92]
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Sep 8, 2015It is arguable that Ones And Sixes is their most fully integrated album to date--a richly satisfying and coherent work drawing together many of the different strands of their career so far.
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Sep 10, 2015Even if Ones And Sixes doesn't end up the proverbial fan favourite, it maintains Low's status as a reliably moving creative partnership.
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Sep 16, 2015Despite its relatively minimal instrumentation, virtually every song here crackles and hums with distorted, altered familiarity.
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Sep 15, 2015Low’s always been good at making records where it sounds like every note and beat contains some degree of pain and hope you’ve felt. So hopefully it’s compelling when this one stands out even more as one of their best.
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Sep 14, 2015Ones and Sixes is all at once beautiful, ugly, tense, warm, inviting and repellent.
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Sep 3, 2015Ones and Sixes is the sound of Low operating in a different gear.
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Q MagazineAug 26, 2015The 11th studio [release] has a brooding familiarity yet is also coolly exhilarating. [Oct 2015, p.111]
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Sep 11, 2015Ones And Sixes sees Low churning out some of their most accessible work, with What Part Of Me having the potential to be an unlikely hit. As ever, strong stuff in every way.
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Sep 11, 2015Low have been indie rock's most economical songwriters for 20 years and running, but their 11th LP takes a bold step toward pop.
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Sep 11, 2015Sparhawk tentatively hits highs in Wayne Coyne territory, imbuing the canyon-filling swirls of background synths and simple, sad, jangly riff with echoes of The Soft Bulletin. “Spanish Translation,” on the other hand, is Low-core and lovely.
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Sep 10, 2015Striking a balance between their majestic, slow-moving melancholy and harsher experimental noise.
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Sep 9, 2015Its slight downfall is a lack of lyrical dexterity, recycling phrases as a crutch, perhaps. The overriding feeling, however, is that this record indicates no end to the creativity of a commercially undervalued act whose longevity was never prophesised.
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Sep 14, 2015Ones and Sixes is an ear-pricking listen, particularly on headphones.
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Sep 10, 2015Ones And Sixes is an album brimming with ideas, but with such a varied batch of songs, some work better than others.
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Sep 15, 2015There’s so much sweet in the bitter here that one might be inclined to think that this is music anyone could get into. But these are songs for Low fans.
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UncutAug 26, 2015After two decades, a band that could easily feel like part of the wallpaper remain hungry to show that you never know what lies beneath. [Oct 2015, p.68]
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Aug 26, 2015Another nice collection of tunes that lacks the urgency of their essential work but still comes with plenty to recommend. [Aug-Sep 2015, p.64]
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