The exception: if they did an album of all chamber orchestra and found/made acoustic instruments, then they could do something amazing with a limited "production". Their own 'Mark Hollis' record...
― Soundslike, Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
I'm happy with any Low album, tbh, but lean more toward the Soundslike view— we've heard what Low can do with more "normal" instrumentation and production, and while I love those records, I'm also hoping it continues in the weird vein.
I will also just say, as I've said before, that "C'Mon" is just not a very good record.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Monday, 15 February 2021 00:22 (three years ago) link
I've said it before but Drums & Guns is my favorite, I wish Alan would get back to making beats or getting hands-on with the production like that (at least that's my understanding of how it was made). It just feels more personal.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 15 February 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
I keep thinking someone like Vladislav Delay would be a good producer for them though, he can create elemental noise but also did an amazing job staying out of the way on that Mirel Wagner album.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 15 February 2021 01:11 (three years ago) link
double negative was so cool and singular, i'm really excited to hear where they push things next
my understanding from interviews is they were all very hands-on with the production on it though, it wasn't just they played the songs and then got bj burton to fuck around with them. it sounded like they came to the sessions with fragments of songs written, and then they spent a lot of time all experimenting with sounds along with bj to flesh those out.
― ufo, Monday, 15 February 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it sounds like they would give him some raw material, he would mess around with it and turn it into something, and then they would come back and write/record over that? From the unfortunately named board:https://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/1261587-lows-double-negative-sound-awesome-production-info.html
"arrangement and structure of the songs shifted as I unlocked the musical elements...as far as words and the melodies, that’s Low. they are from another world."
It's the role of a producer, it's cool, but also more control shaping the records than anyone else has had on a Low record to my knowledge. Normally I'd be fine with it but Low is such an insular, intimate world that I find it distracting, idk. I certainly don't want them to just repeat what they've done before though.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
@soundslike: ones and sixes is weirder low
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
Yeah--there are a couple tracks on 'Ones & Sixes' that sound like a trial run for 'Double Negative,' but overall it just never hit me (though more than 'C'mon').
― Soundslike, Monday, 15 February 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
In case there's anybody that didn't hear the 'Bombscare' EP (wasn't compiled in the rarities box)-- it's just astonishing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRoIbBbJx4U
'Secret Name' had been my favorite of theirs, but circa 2000 is when I feel like they started to really unlock the breadth of their potential (while still keeping the fundamental core of Low-ness). 'Bombscare' really is the precursor to 'Drums & Guns' and 'Double Negative,' hasn't aged a day.
― Soundslike, Monday, 15 February 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
I would place it at Songs for a Dead Pilot. That EP was a massive jolt - the first substantial thing they did without Kramer.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
The track list on that YouTube video for Bombscare includes "4-Way Behind." I was disappointed when I realized that "4" was the track number.
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 15 February 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
https://www.kexp.org/read/2018/10/18/always-trying-work-it-out-conversation-lows-alan-sparhawk/
this interview has more about the double negative sessions, it's a great read
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 02:01 (three years ago) link
looks like we're getting a new album this fall:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CM2wBG0jIgr/
― donna rouge, Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
Eh, looks pretty generic. Disappointing.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
a "disappointing descent to banality", says early review
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
Harmony Magazine: "poorly executed harmonies...grating" 2.5/5
Polyvinyl Chloride insists "becoming Low album" when pressed for details
― Evan, Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
lol
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
these rock stars with their rock star lives, man
Taking the week off from live Instagram show. Drummers all busy and bass player has drivers ed. Happy birthday, @DotsAndLoopsMcr See you all next week. Get them shots. Breathe.— LOW (@lowtheband) March 26, 2021
― StanM, Friday, 26 March 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link
Leatherclad Icon Alan Sparhawk Arrested After 3AM Fistfight with Anthony Kiedis in Strip Club Parking Lot
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 26 March 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
SCOOP : the new album is called Hey What
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AulwhP5Zec
― StanM, Saturday, 10 April 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
(they reveal arount 23m10s)
― StanM, Saturday, 10 April 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QDb9dMhVN8
― StanM, Thursday, 15 April 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link
^beautiful just as one would imagine it would be
― that's not my post, Thursday, 15 April 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
one of the only bands capable of making an actually worthwhile version of this song in 2021
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 15 April 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
https://archive.org/details/Low1998-10-26.flac16
i revisit this set time and time again... immaculate soundboard recording. the spiritualized cover, the "you can't use words like that, saint louise is listening" at the beginning of 'lazy'...
― maelin, Thursday, 15 April 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
wow that set is great! dunno why i never thought to seek out live low before
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 15 April 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
I know why I haven't, and that's probably because anything I find would be so awesome that is all I would listen to.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 April 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
yeah there's a bunch of really good and really different sets floating around
"don't walk away" (from that earlier live video) is quite nice, can't wait to hear what mutant form these songs take
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 15 April 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
can someone post the site that archived all the Friday I'm in Lows they've been doing over the past year? i thought I'd bookmarked it but no.
I am listening to the version of "Coattails" from the set that maelin posted, it might be one of my favorite Low songs, and of course it's just unspeakably beautiful.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 15 April 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
tabes: bit.ly/fridayiminlow
― donna rouge, Thursday, 15 April 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
wait that didn't work, it's https://moppycouk.wixsite.com/fridayiminlow
― donna rouge, Thursday, 15 April 2021 23:57 (three years ago) link
Thanking you dr
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Friday, 16 April 2021 00:17 (three years ago) link
nice podcast where al and mim talk about ‘things we lost in the fire’: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/life-of-the-record/id1487396757?i=1000517855626
and there is a ‘visual album’ of twlitf out tomorrow on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DHIXQ8ZBDA
both for its 20th anniversary
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
Spotify pushed their new singlehttps://open.spotify.com/album/1zi0lhW47mDcDe4cyncrcv?si=--58m7-aQMKjfgGSOAircAlol
― willem, Monday, 31 May 2021 05:41 (two years ago) link
Mimi sounds different
― StanM, Monday, 31 May 2021 08:28 (two years ago) link
feel like that actual album announcement should be pretty danged soon
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Monday, 31 May 2021 12:27 (two years ago) link
goddamnit you had me. same font and everything
― maelin, Monday, 31 May 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
Been workin on that one all winter. Big world, generic one-word band name... https://t.co/JciPU4YZuL— LOW (@lowtheband) June 1, 2021
― StanM, Thursday, 3 June 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
It's too bad all that $$$$ they spent on Rogan meant they can't afford to hire people to clean up data errors like this.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 June 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8QiSZRX8dA
― StanM, Sunday, 20 June 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
LET'S GO. low always mean business.
― maelin, Sunday, 20 June 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
i can't wait to finally hear the electric guitar for the first time
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Sunday, 20 June 2021 23:42 (two years ago) link
hell yes
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Sunday, 20 June 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
should I sign into YouTube and be the first to comment in the chat
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 21 June 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
ah i was unaware my bad
― ufo, Monday, 21 June 2021 01:15 (two years ago) link
oh i definitely meant to say that in a different thread
anyway here's "days like these"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgAQmQl-C9k
album Hey What out 9 september
― ufo, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 02:02 (two years ago) link
oh sorry it's HEY WHAT
White HorsesI Can WaitAll NightDisappearingHeyDays Like TheseThere's a Comma After StillDon't Walk AwayMoreThe Price You Pay (It Must Be Wearing off)
― ufo, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 02:10 (two years ago) link
second half that's all ambient synth noodling is sublime
― ufo, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
Is anybody else getting "this video is unavailable" for the Days Like These link?
― yeah but how, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link