We're getting that framed as I type, actually— we got one on the tour.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 5 December 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
The Low in Europe documentary has popped up recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBkdLGqNKlo
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
This is a worthwhile recommendation. I rewatched it on YouTube a few weeks ago after Mimi passed away.
Also worth checking out is Low: You May Need a Murderer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WjuOc0Mhc0
― I can't tell if he's trolling or not (ilxor), Thursday, 8 December 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6BkD5ivYww
the moment at 22:50 where their daughter recognized they were playing "little surfer girl" hit hard
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 10 December 2022 08:27 (one year ago) link
With Al's blessing, Silversun Pickups have recorded a cover of "Just Like Christmas," Butch Vig produced, as a charity fundraiser:
https://silversunpickups.bandcamp.com/track/just-like-christmas
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
^nice cover
― that's not my post, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
Per another post on Mastodon: "Alan is hosting a listening party tribute to Mimi on 12/21 of the low xmas album. live (if you live in duluth) and streaming"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
Yeah, here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CmFQlABsWs1/?hl=en
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 December 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
❤️🥁❤️ https://t.co/SkT72mUZEY— LOW (@lowtheband) December 21, 2022
that got me. Really would love one for my house.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
All I want to contribute today is that I'm listening to Ones and Sixes and enjoying the hell out of "The Innocents" and "No Comprende."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
Christmas on the stereo right now. Of course I burst into tears during the first minute of "Just Like Christmas."
There's a lot of a really beautiful church music around this time of year, imho, but nothing compares to Low's version of "Little Drummer Boy." It's massive and just astonishingly gorgeous.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 23 December 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
:(
When you hear of someone falling off or becoming homeless or a hoarder after someone close to them dies, it’s not the grief that put them there - it’s the mountain of cold bullshit they have to cut through just to function and go on with life. The crowning gift of capitalism.— LOW (@lowtheband) January 13, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 January 2023 22:42 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBp4EWieEc
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 06:03 (one year ago) link
xpost - that is indeed a depressing sentiment, one that hits really hard after having suddenly lost my father-in-law recently. the amount of red tape and bullshit that my wife has been through already is enough to stress anyone's system and she's just barely hit the tip of the iceberg
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link
Narayama seeming like a more humane option these days
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
I haven't been able to listen to Low much since Mimi passed, but I put on an old playlist the other day that included "Whore" and it feels like that particular song got about 20% slower while I wasn't looking/listening.
― My name is Mike Cyclops. I work for (bernard snowy), Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
Today it was "Dancing and Fire" that caught me off guard with the lines, It's more "Let it out" than "Let it go" / It's not the end, it's just the end of hope.
― My name is Mike Cyclops. I work for (bernard snowy), Friday, 17 February 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
O stands for overrated (indie darlings along with yo la tengo or swans)
― CerebralCaustic, Saturday, 18 February 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link
troll
― StanM, Saturday, 18 February 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
Wtf, does CC ever talk about something they like or do they just pop in to shit on threads? Have they been around under a different name before this?
What would bring a troll here to waste their time? It doesn’t seem like there’s enough traffic to be satisfying.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 18 February 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
Well and to counter CCs trolling a bit, call Low whatever you want but I do not know really any other band that I am a fan of that seems to cross the lines across people I know and other musician's tastes in regards to being admired as much as they do. A very very broad cross-section of people love Low, which is cool. Can't imagine finding this band to be lacking personally, but hey that's just me.
― grandavis, Saturday, 18 February 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
O stands for overrated (indie darlings along with yo la tengo or swans)― CerebralCaustic, Saturday, February 18, 2023 6:00 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― CerebralCaustic, Saturday, February 18, 2023 6:00 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Imagine being this cloth-eared, heartless, and uninspired. I feel pity, and then I flag post.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Saturday, 18 February 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
all caustic no cerebral
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 18 February 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
Alan is doing some sort of minimal funk/r&b band with his son on bass, and buried in there is that he's going to do something with the Bad Plus, which is some serious worlds-colliding shit for me.
https://mndaily.com/275811/arts-entertainment/qa-alan-sparhawk-of-low-on-new-band-derecho/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP0rP5oWNR8
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link
ngl i find that depressing. I really dislike the whole schtick of tbp
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 23:20 (one year ago) link
Bad Plus rip
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 23:24 (one year ago) link
I get that, but the new sax/guitar version of TBP doesn't really have a shtick, just a style (no more covers for one).
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 23:25 (one year ago) link
In fact I'd say they're aggressively anti-schtick now (possibly a corrective measure).
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 23:34 (one year ago) link
okay, sorry for not paying attention since the schtick years turned me off in high school— bands should be good from the start. anyway, i am no longer depressed about it because both of you vouching actually means something to me, if i’m being real
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
In an ironic turn, Alan is playing bass in Zak Sally's band the Hand, who are opening up for Unwound tonight.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 00:13 (one year ago) link
I'm just glad he's out playing, seems healthy.
bands should be good from the start.
Haha, this is a terrifying opinion to me, I'd like to believe there's always a chance for reinvention & redemption.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link
I've seen Derecho, I think I posted about it upthread, but was fun, a lot of potential but still felt like they were working out the kinks
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
I would love that, too. We need to write some hits and get a few more people to show up before we can leave home but we’re working on it. Recording is in process. https://t.co/b2zmQoqd7O— LOW (@lowtheband) March 7, 2023
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
The Getting-Better Plus
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
Alan's in the Ween cover band playing at Turf Club tonight, wish I could go
― fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Friday, 31 March 2023 19:47 (one year ago) link
Gotta say, when I'm feeling like shit, I love locking myself in my home office and blasting my favorite Low tracks
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Thursday, 20 April 2023 01:33 (one year ago) link
Here’s something I found today that Mim wrote down not long ago. Maybe it’s notes from something she heard or read, but it’s the way she saw things, for sure. pic.twitter.com/Fk80G72DpY— LOW (@lowtheband) April 29, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 April 2023 17:26 (eleven months ago) link
Apparently Alan has resumed doing It's Friday I'm in Low?
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr35sj6pLK_/
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 May 2023 15:52 (eleven months ago) link
Alan's djing on The Current rn. Anyone go to the Bad Plus/Marc Ribot show at First Ave that he opened? I'm very curious what he did.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Friday, 16 June 2023 17:29 (ten months ago) link
Alan is starting to look like a younger version of Robert Plant
― that's not my post, Friday, 16 June 2023 23:42 (ten months ago) link
Maybe they'll start a band together.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Saturday, 17 June 2023 00:15 (ten months ago) link
I had the pleasure of interviewing Takiaya Reed of Divide and Dissolve for a Quietus Baker's Dozen the other week; I've seen them before, had dinner with them once, a good bunch (this was when they were a duo, but Takiaya is now the sole core member). They had done various shows with Low coming out of the pandemic and indeed were scheduled to open for them for what would have been their SF show here for Hey What, which, since I missed the Double Negative tour due to circumstances beyond my control, would have been the first time I'd had a chance to see them since the Christmas tour back in 2010. That she picked Hey What for her list didn't surprise, and neither did the fact that she was a little overcome by talking and thinking about them, and so was I, honestly:
https://thequietus.com/articles/33145-takiaya-reed-divide-and-dissolve-bakers-dozen?page=11
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 17:43 (nine months ago) link
Takiaya is an old friend— thanks for sharing
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 18:20 (nine months ago) link
It's a very small thing, but I included a drone/ambient cover of "Laser Beam" on my newest album:
https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/track/laser-beam
I'm donating all sales (CD or digital) to the Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance in memory of Mimi.
I tried to record this in the days after she passed, hoping it would pull me out of the depths. I just couldn't do it at the time, but was able to revisit it on her birthday recently and finish it.
― Soundslike, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 22:48 (six months ago) link
this is lovely
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 23:14 (six months ago) link
Thank you! Low has meant so much to me for 26 years, I hope this stands up as a small tribute.
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 05:14 (six months ago) link
Did you send a link to Alan? ( lowtheband on X )
― StanM, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 07:58 (six months ago) link
A few days back I reached out to Alan to make sure he was OK with covers on DIY small-scale, and he said he was, and asked thet I share. So I tagged him in the release announcement, and he shared that, which is a huge honor to me : )
https://www.twitter.com/musicophiliamix/status/1706784425663779192
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 12:36 (six months ago) link
Nice!
― StanM, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 12:56 (six months ago) link
tc psa: Tired Eyes at Turf Club tomorrow night. the one they played two years ago honestly one of my favorite shows ever.
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 03:29 (five months ago) link