http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_%28album%29
Listened to this album on vinyl today and it blew my head up.
It's a triumph of atmosphere and texture, a masterpiece of mood and feeling. Melodies act more like brush strokes on a painting rather than as hooks, and they are all very simple, not saying much of anything but implying almost everything.
The arrangements and instrumentation would have crushed any lesser band into gimmickry, and I am amazed at how human this record is. There is frivolity and brooding and questioning and maybe some hope, for those looking for it. The album is the 20th century sound defined: vibrating electronic circuits mesh with doomsayer pianos and a mournful saxophone while huge hollow drums carve out a place for it all to live at nervous peace with itself.
You can read Wikipedia or take my word for it, but you need to HEAR Low to really understand it. Buy, listen to it, rewind it, listen again.
You read it, you can't unread it!
2 comments:
Hey. I read a few of you post and it seems pretty cool. For some reason whenever i look for other cool blogs, all of them seem so serious like landscaping, furniture, art (not that art is bad or anything). If there were more like yours, who actually talk about stuff people would want to read, then this site would be a hell of a lot better.
People take what they love seriously,sometimes to the point of stupidity. I post what's on my mind, and that's why this blog is so schizoid. Thanks for the praise.
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