Low: Classic or classic?

This band can do no wrong, really.

I am completely blanking on the name of the Low song-by-song blog, anyone remember it?

http://youcanttrustviolence.blogspot.com/ ?

Thats it, thanks!

http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/Low_Route_du_Rock/

^excellent, thanks for the link

(fyi, setlist: Nothing But Heart / Nightingale / You See Everything / Monkey / Silver Rider / Especially Me / Sunflower / Try To Sleep / Canada / Violent Past / Last Snowstorm of the Year / Murderer )

Awesome, thanks for this.

http://devonrecordclub.com/2014/07/22/low-things-we-lost-in-the-fire-round-70-toms-selection/

something about early low is hitting me hard lately, like it hasn't in several years

Same!!

Classic.

"words" is a perfect first song first album statement.

You know that there is a part of Low that just wants to record an album where they croon "You're gonna die..........." over and over again for 40 minutes.

You could play "Shots and Ladders" 5 times in a row and achieve the same result tbh

Sometimes I can't handle "Pretty People" because it occasionally sounds like Low in self-parody mode, now I'm imagining it running 40 minutes.

new album double negative out in september, produced by b.j. burton

Press release uses the terms "abrasive" and "defiant." fun!

Also, that has to be the ultimate Low album title

Low - Fun!

lol

If "abrasive" and "defiant" mean "sounds like [their best album] 'Drums and Guns'" I'm very in.

It sounds like it's a noisier, tighter version of the last album.

alan was rocking this incredible disintegrating guitar tone when i saw them a few months back, can't wait to hear that on record

like the classic Neil Young jet engine guitar sound?

close to dead man but instead of letting the notes ring, they crumble

Has the album been announced? They seem to have disappeared from the Sub Pop website. Looking forward to the Leeds show next week. I have a spare ticket if anyone's after one.

only via this listing AFAICT

https://www.cargo-records.de/en/item/126785/katalog_art.123.html

hope this is as great as The Great Destroyer/Trust/Secret Name/Things We Lost In The Fire because nothing they have done since those has been as compelling imo

I'm a little sad it doesn't seem like we're ever getting a Mimi solo album as I seem to imagine Alan teased quite a long time ago. (Though for anyone who hasn't heard it, his Solo Guitar is a neat bit of soundscaping.)

first 15 mins of the new album:

https://open.spotify.com/album/6nfpfcAiNLaxyFxwcj0lkm

holy shit @ glitch ghost Mimi!

oh good this sounds like autechre

I really hate to make this comparison ever but this is sounding very Kid A and I'm into it

it's amazing that The Invisible Way was only two albums ago lol

aoty probably

:D

whoa

Very excited for this. I thought that Ones and Sixes was a great look for them (especially the colder parts like the first two tracks and "DJ") and am pleased that they seem to have travelled some distance further down that road.

"Quorum" really does sound like Autechre.

Going #fullBrad here but aoty. This is amazing.

I've listened to these 4-5 times and I'm just mad we have to wait three months for the rest

For real.

Didn't see this coming at all. Awesome music.

There's video too, suitably glitchy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvEozu4Obfs

Sub Pop is offering a pretty good deal for a bundle of their last 5 LPs.

holy shit these new songs are amazing. i'm so gutted that the local show for me (leeds, UK) is sold out... though i did see them in LA last year, and briefly met alan. he was sweet.

wowowowowowow

excellent video too

when did they turn into Andy Stott?

each of the three are so good in different ways. "dancing in blood" in particular raises goosebumps at times. if they hadn't done anything since trust/great destroyer times, then released this, it would sound like a portishead third kind of return. really refreshing to hear their voices and some of the same guitar tones in a new context

Wow. I'm surprised and amazed. These are utterly unexpected, but progress into something that is unmistakably them and really beautiful. Dancing In Blood gave me goosebumps too, then the latter stages of Fly hit and... just wow.