Low
March 20, 2005
I’ve been listening to the band LOW
since they released Long Division 10 years ago. It’s hazy spectral
ambience and intensity blew me away. Over the years LOW has gotten less
reverb’d out and more ingenious in their ways of mesmerizing me. I
won’t go into how I felt that Trust was the end of them because here
they are with a new label (sub pop) and a new album.
With the release of The Great Destroyer I feel LOW has reached that
pinnacle of intensity they have been holding back for so long. No more
hints of emotional explosion as they had done in the past, the whole
album implodes into a fiery collection of songs that resonate anger,
sorrow, love and the grey world of hope.
To be honest, the album itself could do without a couple of songs, but
that’s me but with that said I cannot think of an album more
necessary to get this yearor a band to see perform live.
review by farhad parsa
