Sparhawk has a more hedonistic response: “Let’s turn this thing up before they take us out,” he hollers on the blues-rock stomper Rome (Always in the Dark), but acknowledges on Dancing and Fire that any bacchanal is “more let it out than let it go”. That the song sails out on Low’s most enduring trademark—Sparhawk and Parker’s intertwined harmonies—suggests not everything has to be lost in the fire. Low: Double Negative - Spectrum Culture. In July, about a month after the band announced their album, Trump publicly backpedaled from a comment he’d made which seemed to indicate to Russian President Vladimir Putin that, unlike the CIA and FBI and the remainder of the intelligence agencies, he didn’t believe Russia had interfered in the 2016 election. It’s the sound of an edgeland, of fear and uncertainty, constant distortion of fact, and relentless end-times mania. The album is like a discovery of a new mutation of still-recognizable DNA. Words by Susan Darlington. “The Son, the Sun,” is only ambience. Sub Pop, 2018 Purchase: Amazon 3.1 / 10. Commenting has been disabled at this time but you can still. Throughout the 25 years of Low’s existence, their sonic change has come at a glacial pace. But Minnesota trio Low have always been an unflinching and uncompromising band. The composition is dynamic and riveting—“Always Trying to Work It Out” is gentle, classic Low, smoldering under reverb until it splits in half and pours out even more static—midway through, the song sounds like it’s frying. LOW have taken the opportunity for nostalgia as encouragement to challenge both themselves and their fanbase. Making a socially conscious album might seem like an obvious move, but Low present something far more visceral than protest music, a body of work that doesn’t dictate but is more interested in a despair that galvanizes and paralyzes. But after two minutes of stuttering noise on Quorum, the opening track of Low’s twelfth album, Double Negative, the first semi-audible words break through the pulsating ripples –… But, given time, the scale of Low’s achievement reveals itself. This seems particularly so on tracks like opener “Quorum,” which feels like it’s being run over by square tires with snow chains, and “Tempest,” which is filtered to the point of sounding as if it’s playing from a needle on a turntable that’s collecting toxic sludge. Released 14 September 2018 on Sub Pop (catalog no. “Dancing and Fire” is one of the few songs with completely intelligible vocals on a record filled with voices under siege, obscured and buried as if to render in a way beyond words the current administration’s attack on speech. Low Double Negative Sub Pop Records [2018] Fire Note Says: On Low’s 12th album, they sketch a portrait of the dark and noisy residue of modern life, and allow moments of beauty to break through the cracks. 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