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100
The album's first side is a beautiful futurist ruin, littered with holes left purposefully unfixed, while the blank, instrumental second side feels like a calculated attempt to kill the author.
100
Low is a dense, challenging album that confirmed his place at rock's cutting edge. Driven by dissonant synthesizers and electronics, Low is divided between brief, angular songs and atmospheric instrumentals.
10y
100
Low flows together into a lyrical, hallucinatory, miraculously beautiful whole, the music of an overstimulated mind in an exhausted body, as rock's prettiest sex vampire sashays through some serious emotional wreckage.
100
An album of mournfully sincere synthesizer music.
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1y
90
The ensuing 'Low' advocates the merging of man and machine, and then depicts the resulting sense of loss.
80
Bowie furthers his interest in robot sex, woozy ambience, and electro-rock dabbling.
tHiS iS sOmE gOoD eXpErImEnTaL mUsIc
I'm actually speechless. I'm stunned because this album just flirted with my ears, and managed to take them on a romantic date.
Then this album took my ears... AND PROCEEDED TO FUCK THEM.
now im pregnant wtf
Fine Bowie, I guess I can be your wifey... :)
You know what is so great about David Bowie? It doesn't matter what album you pick up from his discography, You will always find something new and refreshing. He kept reinventing himself with every single project, And his love and passion for music is what made him such a compelling and intriguing artist.
Many consider this album to be Bowie's experimental opus. Hell, Some even consider this project to be his best album. While I don't think it's ... read more
*listens to first half*: oh ok so this is what they were talking about
*listens to second half*: OH OK SO THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT
You gotta appreciate the innovation of this album... If this was released today it would still be ahead of it's time. I love how energetic and fun this album is at first only to slowly turn into this beautiful ambient Ballad towards the end, Warszawa is an impeccable artistic statement that shaped the rest of this album and pretty much the rest of his ... read more
Wow, totally did not expect to hear something like this from Bowie. I'm all for it though, so excellently composed
Interesting experiment. I didn't love the second half switch-up personally, but I can tell that's due to it being jarring, not it being annoying, meaning it'll probably improve on relisten, since I'll know it'll be coming. Still, Warszawa and Subterraneans work, with that last track appealing to my love of saxes. Also, Speed of Life has an incredibly instrumental, Always Crashing in the Same Car has tragic, beautiful lyrics, and Be My Wife mixes the two, making all three some of my favorite ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Speed of Life 2:47 | 94 |
| 2 | Breaking Glass 1:52 | 91 |
| 3 | What in the World 2:24 | 89 |
| 4 | Sound and Vision 3:03 | 95 |
| 5 | Always Crashing in the Same Car 3:35 | 94 |
| 6 | Be My Wife 2:56 | 93 |
| 7 | A New Career in a New Town 2:55 | 92 |
| 8 | Warszawa 6:27 | 95 |
| 9 | Art Decade 3:48 | 90 |
| 10 | Weeping Wall 3:29 | 90 |
| 11 | Subterraneans 5:43 | 95 |
Total Length: 39 minutes
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Added on: February 4, 2013