Low: Classic or classic?

nels cline + low = unbelievable anticipation for this disc.

the vocal harmony on the chorus of silver rider is every bit as good on this live ep as it is on the disc -- maybe better? it's astonishing.

Many thanks to StanM for posting a link to the full show last year. Great to see that the transcendent versions of Silver Rider and July are getting wider circulation. And Mim's vocal on Laser Beam, wow.

Yeah see this tour. The show I saw consisted of a few old songs to start things, then their new album in its entirety (or at least 10 new songs, all played in a row), then most/all of the Christmas EP, then an all-request encore. Mimi's solo vocal on Laser Beam was in fact pretty stunning.

They're also performing as a four-piece for most of it, with a new guy on electric piano and enough drums to create a full kit between him and Mimi, and Charlie Parr accompanied at a few points.

how are the new tunes?

gonna miss this in SF this week, supremely bummed

anyone know if they're coming to the east coast anytime soon? this tour sounds fantastic.

The electric piano was only really present on the first of them, where it takes a pretty prominent lead. Sounds in a lot of ways like a continuation of where they were going on Drums and Guns. I really liked one listed on the setlist as "Witches" (Alan brought out a Les Paul baritone for it). Lots of one-word choruses, a few moments of very noisy guitar playing. Really curious as to how this is going to sound with studio treatments and with Nels Cline on it.

I've renewed my love affair with Low in the last few months and have been catching up on the last few records which I passed on at the time of their release. Bought Trust last month and The Great Destroyer a couple of weeks ago. Trust was solid but didn't do a whole lot for me. But man, The Great Destroyer. I had totally written this record off based on the couple of songs I heard from it at the time, but to my surprise it's quite excellent! Been listening to it nonstop since I got it. It's not perfect, but it's really good.

new one's really good—it's called C'mon, comes out in three weeks or so—few throwaway songs but 2/3 or so is utter gold

er... utterly golden? whatever. who knows

Low covers 'Africa' by Toto for The AV Club's 'Undercover' series

predictably, it is awesome.

Damn, I'm getting an error, it's not showing.

That's fantastic, thanks for the link!

Obnoxious Starbucks advertising though - urgh.

download http://videos.theonion.com/avclub_video/2011/undercover/AVUC2_009-Low.flv

This band can do no wrong, really.

I am completely blanking on the name of the Low song-by-song blog, anyone remember it?

http://youcanttrustviolence.blogspot.com/ ?

Thats it, thanks!

http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/Low_Route_du_Rock/

^excellent, thanks for the link

(fyi, setlist: Nothing But Heart / Nightingale / You See Everything / Monkey / Silver Rider / Especially Me / Sunflower / Try To Sleep / Canada / Violent Past / Last Snowstorm of the Year / Murderer )

Awesome, thanks for this.

http://devonrecordclub.com/2014/07/22/low-things-we-lost-in-the-fire-round-70-toms-selection/

something about early low is hitting me hard lately, like it hasn't in several years

Same!!

Classic.

"words" is a perfect first song first album statement.

You know that there is a part of Low that just wants to record an album where they croon "You're gonna die..........." over and over again for 40 minutes.

You could play "Shots and Ladders" 5 times in a row and achieve the same result tbh

Sometimes I can't handle "Pretty People" because it occasionally sounds like Low in self-parody mode, now I'm imagining it running 40 minutes.

new album double negative out in september, produced by b.j. burton

Press release uses the terms "abrasive" and "defiant." fun!

Also, that has to be the ultimate Low album title

Low - Fun!

lol

If "abrasive" and "defiant" mean "sounds like [their best album] 'Drums and Guns'" I'm very in.

It sounds like it's a noisier, tighter version of the last album.

alan was rocking this incredible disintegrating guitar tone when i saw them a few months back, can't wait to hear that on record

like the classic Neil Young jet engine guitar sound?

close to dead man but instead of letting the notes ring, they crumble

Has the album been announced? They seem to have disappeared from the Sub Pop website. Looking forward to the Leeds show next week. I have a spare ticket if anyone's after one.

only via this listing AFAICT

https://www.cargo-records.de/en/item/126785/katalog_art.123.html

hope this is as great as The Great Destroyer/Trust/Secret Name/Things We Lost In The Fire because nothing they have done since those has been as compelling imo

I'm a little sad it doesn't seem like we're ever getting a Mimi solo album as I seem to imagine Alan teased quite a long time ago. (Though for anyone who hasn't heard it, his Solo Guitar is a neat bit of soundscaping.)

first 15 mins of the new album:

https://open.spotify.com/album/6nfpfcAiNLaxyFxwcj0lkm

holy shit @ glitch ghost Mimi!

oh good this sounds like autechre

I really hate to make this comparison ever but this is sounding very Kid A and I'm into it

it's amazing that The Invisible Way was only two albums ago lol