Not since Bon Iver’s aforementioned reinvention or even Radiohead’s Kid A have a relatively mainstream band made such an assured volte-face, wilfully pushing their audience away while they revisit, remake and remodel the tension that made them so very precious in the first place. Fierce and beautiful. Low are back.
Double Negative is an album that will endure for a long time. It’s a thrilling development that proves how Low continue to release music of extremely high standards, restlessly creative and never content to stand still.
Considering the trying times we live in, it’s inspiring that Low have managed to cope by learning how to fully – and artfully – embrace their inner austerity and hopelessness.
Double Negative by Low is simultaneously like nothing they’ve ever done before, and exactly like everything they’ve ever done before.
Double Negative is their biggest step forward to date, an album that scrambles their sound completely; it sounds nothing like Low and everything like Low. More than that, it captures what it means to be alive in 2018, when developments in technology create rather than alleviate suffering, when each day seems to present a fresh new hell, when it takes immense will power to maintain equilibrium and hope.
Double Negative sees Low continue their tradition of producing highly emotional music and delivers their most powerful, direct, and moving work yet.
Double Negative is a magnificent and courageous record, if you’re ready for it.
Double Negative is a brave and thoughtful collection of songs that lets Low's beating heart scream for its life against a world without compassion, and if it isn't much fun, in 2018 it's truly necessary.
While a somewhat disorientating experience, this is Low's most challenging and interesting record for sometime.
With Double Negative, Low maintain all fronts of their fanbase. All the elements of the bands chilling atmospheres are here.
From the moment it begins, Double Negative sounds like being inside a violent storm, holding up a mirror to the turbulence of the world right now.
Yes, Double Negative asks much of listeners, but what you get in return is positive to say the least.
400 ratings wooo. Seems like a good time to return to one of my favorite bands, maybe even my favorite: Low. This is the first time I'm reviewing one of their albums after the passing of Mimi Parker; let me just say: rest in peace. She has left behind quite the legacy, including this 2018 album, Double Negative. Her drumming functions as the glue holding these songs together, along with Alan's guitar. Take the highlight Always Trying To Work It Out, where the drums are mixed to sound something ... read more
This shit made me freak tf out at 3 in the morning
Low is the one band that I’ve always enjoyed, but never fully saw the hype for. The same case applies here, but I still had a good time overall with Double Negative. I listened to this record last night and the production is super cool, but it scared the shit out of me lol. Still I think that is the best part of the record. My favorite song is Dancing and Fire, which might be one of my favorite Low songs. I be lively subtle and ... read more
This is so beautiful, immense and mysterious, it hurts. I'm kind of baffled how can this be so underrated, in my opinion Double Negative is a masterclass of noise / industrial / glitch music.
Legendary slowcore band, Low has really leaned into noise on their last two albums, and they found absolute gems in the depth of that sound, and brough them up to the surface. I'm so sorry for Mimi - I can't help but wonder, what amazing pieces of art would they have made, if she'd still be with ... read more
It took some time for this album to grow on me, cause its aggressive distortions or booming drums make it uncanny in its otherwise minimalist production. But it's this kind of uncanny character that one ought to appreciate.
1 | Quorum 3:42 | 84 |
2 | Dancing and Blood 6:22 | 88 |
3 | Fly 5:48 | 89 |
4 | Tempest 4:48 | 88 |
5 | Always Up 5:28 | 85 |
6 | Always Trying to Work It Out 3:55 | 89 |
7 | The Son, The Sun 3:30 | 78 |
8 | Dancing and Fire 4:17 | 82 |
9 | Poor Sucker 3:35 | 83 |
10 | Rome (Always in the Dark) 3:32 | 88 |
11 | Disarray 3:52 | 90 |
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