Low

Attractive Nun

Granted I'm about ten years late with this one, but I've just listened to Low for the first time. I stuck on Things We Lost in the Fire and I'm just blown away. From the moment the lyrics kicked in on 'Sunflower' I was sucked in and I've been listening to the album on repeat for about two hours. Opinions on Low?


(Ah, I love finding great new music...)

mike65

Easily my favouite of the Berlin period albums

Mike.

eclectichoney

Love Love Love Low

Hard to pick a favourite album by them, but maybe Secret Name (Two Step *sigh*). Tbh though they have never had a bad album. If you like Things WeLost, Secret Name or Trust is probably a good next step. Great Destroyer is a little louder.

John

Excellent band, consistently brilliant. Hard to pick a favourite album and impossible to pick a bad album. eclectichoney's suggestions on where to go next are spot on, I also recommend the b-sides box set A Lifetime of Temporary Relief which is normally very economically priced and gives a good overview of their career. Go see them live when they come back, they are even better on stage.

eclectichoney

Completely forgot about the bsides boxset which is equally lovely - thanks John, will have to dig it out for a spin today

yay for Low!

Kali

Love Low. You've started with the best album imo (and I caught them at an ATP Don't Look Back session playing the whole of it!), but Trust and Great Destroyer are both worth a look in too. Favourite track is easily When I Go Deaf... I like it loud

John

Has anyone heard Alan's solo album from earlier this year (soon to be last year)? I keep meaning to check it out but I've gotten mixed reviews about it.

eclectichoney

I was very disappointed with the solo record - I only listened to it a few times mind you, i couldn't motivate myself to do so!

smackbunnybaby

Attractive Nun wrote: »

Granted I'm about ten years late with this one, but I've just listened to Low for the first time. I stuck on Things We Lost in the Fire and I'm just blown away. From the moment the lyrics kicked in on 'Sunflower' I was sucked in and I've been listening to the album on repeat for about two hours. Opinions on Low?


(Ah, I love finding great new music...)

things we lost in the fire was also the first low record i bought - i didnt know that music could be so beautiful.
whitetail is ssooo haunting. like a forest is spectacular.
they dont do bad albums.

Attractive Nun

During their early career, the band often faced unsympathetic and inattentive audiences in bars and clubs, to which they responded by bucking rock protocol and turning their volume down.

Lunar Junkie

Low are one of my favourite bands since I picked up on them around the time 'Trust' was released. You don't get too many groups that are so consistently good over the course of a decade-plus career. They've been a tiny bit mixed over the last couple of albums (both Drums and Guns and The Great Destroyer, in my opinion, failing to make the best of strong source material with some poor production and arrangement decisions) but I'd unhesitatingly recommend pretty much anything they've released to anybody who likes gorgeous, melodic music mixed with an intensely minimal and bleak aesthetic.. Trust, Things We Lost In The Fire and Secret Name are my personal favourites. As previously mentioned by a couple of posters the 'A Lifetime of Temporary Relief' boxed set is extremely well-worth hunting down also, and they're a consistently great live act, I'd always recommend seeing their gigs if you get the chance.

Attractive Nun

Had some HMV vouchers that had been hanging around for a while, so I decided to take a chance on A Lifetime of Temporary Relief. Will report back in a few days.