Low: Classic or classic?

nice of god to speak somewhere for once

has anyone ever tried to listen to drums and guns from a set of speakers that mirrors the mix, with one speaker on the far left of the room, the other on the far right? that's the one i've always been unable to get through. it sounds awful on headphones (to me at least), and the stereo separation on my normal set up just comes out sounding weird. i can imagine it sounding really good if the speakers were far enough apart that it was possible to walk around a bit in the combined sound field.

It sounds great in the car

'Drums & Guns' is top 3 Low for me, and I love the hard panning for its unsettling effect that suits the music.

^agree.

enjoying this cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa8Ky20UYaU&

As per normal, we are coming in late like a northern Minnesota farmer. Mimi and Alan are probably doing an INSTAGRAM LIVE set for you tomorrow at around 1 or 2 central standard US. That should be evening for UK/Europe and middle of the night for Tokyo. More details to come. 💜

— LOW (@lowtheband) April 2, 2020

Oh my, yes. This, I need.

Confirmed time - and weekly performances!

(21:00 in UK today) pic.twitter.com/IeArsUQIlk

— LOW (@lowtheband) April 3, 2020

I wonder if they will change things up at all, tonally. I love Low, but don't know if I want to love Low right now, necessarily.

it would be extremely funny if they chose this occasion to pivot to baggy funtime jams

Well, I assume they will sound like Low. But I dunno, maybe different covers? And their banter is usually funny. Just wondering if it will be the usual hour of "we're all going to die."

if it's going to be weekly then there's plenty of scope

That was a lot of fun, really. New song, impromptu "Star Spangled Banner," "Murderer". Just good people.

Tuned in just before they started “When I Go Deaf”. Actually lifted me to hear and see them play that and “Murderer” this evening, two songs I really love, and the new song sounded really good too.

did they post a link to the show?

If you go to their Instagram profile and click on the profile picture then select “watch live video” you’ll be able to watch it back.

“When I Go Deaf” into “The Star Spangled Banner” got me misty-eyed.

Could anyone please share "It's All Been Done"? Someone posted a link here but it's expired now. It's such a shame the song wasn't made available for download. It's only featured in the Japanese release of Double Negative. Many thanks in advance.

over on twitter lowtheband joined tim's listening party to talk about their first album. pics, memories, etc

they played their IG live set today with no talking in honor of george floyd, which ended with an absolutely blistering performance of 'breaker.' totally wrecked me.

They couldn't but end with "Breaker".

Time to put on the Christmas album.

One of the first things I played when December hit. Worth noting as well that I think all the originals have been covered in studio by others one way or another at this point.

they're still doing those great weekly Instagram sessions, started in April...

check out itsfridayiminlow.com for archives and tracklists

it's been such a joy watching them play all these super-deep cuts on the IG live concerts. has there been a low artist poll here yet?

Omg, I would go absolutely nuts

Looked at the archives, was like "Man, I really want to see them perform "Laugh," and sure enough, they did it on Friday!"

I was only the rota to do it and then that list kind of died? I think I sort of volunteered to do it again but it was too close to Double Negative so it got kicked into the grass again.

Short answer, I start a new job at the beginning February so time is pretty much against me now. Happy for anyone else to take over.

This band.

I've been steadily listening through their albums since last year, and would def participate in an artist poll now. I've mostly been listening to the newer stuff since a lot of the older stuff isn't on Spotify, but they have the debut, which has some great music. Overall though, I think I prefer the energy of Great Destroyer and after. C'mon is incredible especially

A bit surprising that Things We Lost is the only album of theirs I haven't liked all that much, not sure why. But I find it a bit hard to explain why I love this band so much to begin with!

I tend to think Things We Lost is the least good album pre-Great Destroyer, but I also think that Great Destroyer and everything that came after is of less good quality across the board. Early Low is incredible, each album amazing.

Whereas there are superfluous tracks on each album after and including The Great Destroyer. There are even superfluous albums, imho— despite two good songs, The Invisible Way is almost entirely embarrassing.

My own post confused me: I like everything pre-TGD, but thing TWLITF is the least good, while still being really amazing. Everything after that is more spotty to me.

'Double Negative' may be the best record ever made 25 years into a group's continuous career. They were clearly rejuvinated by it, after their first couple 'merely OK' albums.

I've been mostly listening to live shows on archive.org (LowMusic) to be honest. Looking for the longest/slowest version of Lullaby etc (14 minutes?)

Low might be the unusual band with 3 relatively distinct phases each of which has their ILX stans. "Relatively" since one could also see their discography as a continuum with I Could Live in Hope at one end and Double Negative at the other. FWIW I love the stretch between Secret Name and Guns & Drums.

^including both Secret Name and Guns & Drums...

I think Ones and Sixes is a really great album that somewhat understandably now gets overshadowed by its successor.

I kind of think for Low what we think of as 'merely okay' might be their way of experimenting or trying something different. If all of your albums are interesting or adventurous, then relatively conventional becomes your own version of adventurous.

Arggh, stupid, I should say all the way back to I Could Live in Hope, what was I thinking?

I kind of fit in with table's take - thought TWILITF was kind of weak when it came out but they peaked again with Trust. Then I felt TGD wasn't all it could have been, basically because of the inferior version of Silver Rider (a trick they pulled again with the inferior version of Murderer on D&G) and I just sort of lost interest. Saw them touring C'Mon in a room full of people who talked through every moment that wasn't loud and I guess I just lost interest.

Watched the Glastonbury set for Double Negative and it was great though, maybe because of DYKHTW.

I also always forget that TWLITF came before Trust....but basically, The Great Destroyer just put me off them for five or six years. I still don't like that album very much!

At the same time, The Great Destroyer has "Silver Rider," one of their all time prettiest songs.

That's the one I meant, the version on the Murderer ep was far superior imo

Which I see I said. Put down the keyboard aldo

Hmm, I think I prefer the album version. They're both great, though, and pretty distinct.

They uploaded this for the annual Duluth Kamikaze festival:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ug9-alFfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxFy-7DywdE

The Lice Song is still my favourite oddity, I got it originally a tape via the Low List of some mid-afternoon set at an outdoor thing Secret Name era.

! I had never heard that, thanks :-)

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/low/1999/loring-park-minneapolis-mn-33ee14cd.html

http://www.trustlow.com/archive/photos/990802.php

Found the show listing. Low also have some photos of it.

My favorite Low oddity is their cover of Soul Coughing's "Blue Eyed Devil," which I find just perfect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FHBxseoXvc