Low: Classic or classic?

amazing video

i'm so excited for this album

"Disappearing" was not a song that caught me much so far but it works great with those visuals

Did anyone ever buy that Japanese Double Negative for the bonus track? I heard it on a radio show, that bonus track, but I'd love to have a CD rip of it without paying 50 bucks for the one song.

you should be able to find it, "it's all been done", on soulseek

Damn, you weren't messing around. I haven't used Soulseek for 15 years, but right there it was. Appreciate your help, ufo.

Today is the 25th anniversary of 'The Curtain Hits the Cast.'

How they made More (single coming out next week)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CShwo23FMDs/

it's for certain / i never thought i'd last / i never thought the sea would try

That pedal chain is awesome but, phew, probably $1300 of boutique box effects.

still can't get over how good the guitar on "white horses" is

have been going through rarities i'd never heard before and wow "half light" sure is unique in their catalogue. kinda reminds me of songs of faith and devotion?

oh yeah, that Mothman Prophecies OST thing, right - hadn't heard that in a long time. you're not wrong!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfQQvHvIPHI

that's an interesting video -- all fake, plastic, manufactured tools and items, but with real human force to drive them to use them, all for nothing

I had to go look up The Knife's Handyman video to see how similar I remember it being (not very)

Exploring Peter Rehberg's catalog since I had only heard a few things over the years, this song reminds me too much of Double Negative (specifically the noisy part of "Tempest") not to share here:

https://pitaemego.bandcamp.com/track/get-out-3

classic

https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/low-band-alan-sparhawk-hey-what/

nice interview, alan thinks 100 gecs are great

nice boots

Only one more week. I've put off listening to anything form this so far, after Double Negative I want to wait and savor the whole thing.

didnt realize theyd lost their bass player? i liked steve!

I want to see technology break as much as it has broken me.

damn

yeah that line hit me like a ton of bricks too

The same thing as ever ; great early on and got worse as they progressed.

*AIR HORN*

hhhYYOOOOOoooooooonk

you make a good point i guess i'd never thought of it that way.

welp, you've convinced me - I'm no longer a fan. Thanks!

they did start out really well

but an attack is followed by a decay. that's the physics of sound. the decay may be sustained, but in will eventually be released. i think we know what stage of low we're at now

seeing their release show next weekend. intimate affair in the woods (~250 attendees? if that?). stoked

"the same thing as ever" is really funny to say about a band that has made shifts in their sound as radical as double negative & drums and guns

Always hitting a new LOW

More goes really hard and I love it.

I haven’t paid attention to them since Long Division, since their sound did nothing for me (I was all about beats n’bass in 1996), and just figured since then it’s been 25 years of the same. Boy was I wrong!!! :(

The same thing as ever ; great early on and got worse as they progressed.

― ^TwIn*InFiNiTiVeS^, Saturday, September 4, 2021

don't feel this. they are one of the few bands who got better

their best periods are their early stuff & this current one

Haven't heard the new one yet, but I don't care for their avant stuff. I like them soft & mellow.

btw the new (touring, at least) bass player is Liz Draper

http://giantstepsmusic.org/liz-draper/
https://www.instagram.com/lizdraperbass/

xp you probably won't like the new one then, it's the loudest they've ever been. imo it's one of their very best though

Low have made one of my favorite albums of the decade for every decade they’ve existed. Curtain (90s), Fire (00s), Double Negative (10s).

that's because they're the best

https://toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-077-low

good interview in tone glow, really gets into their dynamic as a band

yes was also coming here to post that, its a great read

i've been going back through the early instagram performances of the new material & it's fascinating to see how their ideas evolved from very straight forward arrangements before they got into the studio, to the album's walls of distortion with barely any percussion at all

i never even realised there's only prominent drums on a single track until i saw it mentioned in an interview recently

alan thinks 100 gecs are great

― ufo, Thursday, September 2, 2021 6:01 AM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

does he? I didn't necessarily get that impression from the quote. I think he was referring generally to stuff like the Paul Anka thing that was hyperlinked. Sorry but I'm having a difficult time imagining Alan and Mimi listening to that between like harvesting their beets and praying before bed

it's ambiguous but "That’s what young people should be doing—they should be smashing it and building their own vocabulary" sounds more like 100 gecs etc. than the Paul Anka Playing From Another Room video.

it'd make sense if he's at least a little familiar enough with them to think they're great, he's actually not too far removed from that whole world via the bj burton connection

it's ambiguous but "That’s what young people should be doing—they should be smashing it and building their own vocabulary" sounds more like 100 gecs etc. than the Paul Anka Playing From Another Room video.

it'd make sense if he's at least a little familiar enough with them to think they're great, he's actually not too far removed from that whole world via the bj burton connection

ah whoops

anyway i can totally imagine burton having played them for him & alan going "oh the distortion rules" etc