The follow-up to 2018’s acclaimed, revolutionary Double Negative is another mesmerising work of brilliant sound distortions and beautiful vocals by Minnesota couple Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk. Opener White Horses for example takes the guitar and more to places it’s never been, with a rushing grind and groan moving into a distorted staccato rhythm as the pair’s vocal harmonies come in, the track rising to wonderful emotional intensity morphing into second track I Can Wait. All Night is perhaps the pick of the bunch, a dream-like journey of sonic strangeness in which it is impossible to identify any instrument but again decorated with delicious vocals. The album moves through dynamic changes, for example from the quieter Don’t Walk Away to the stormy crash of More or the tenderness of Days Like These. A fabulous piece of unclassifiable work that, 25 years into Low’s history and their 13th studio album, certainly lives up to Double Negative’s great strides in what is a all consuming sonic experience. Out on Sub Pop.
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