Press and Radio

Artist Low
Title Drums And Guns
Label Sub Pop
The Sun London
By CS
Rating: 4.5
Published: 30 March 2007

Take something exquisite and distort it by 20 percent. Shape it into something altogether edgier and darker. Keep it minimal and dead slow.

Throw in some scary lyrics about murder and death. Hear them sung beautifully by married Mormon couple Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker.

And ther eyou have them -- the incomparable Low.

Back with their eighth album, the masters of "slowcore" have delivered a smouldering tour-de-force.

New elements such as looped vocals and drum machines slot neatly into the band's distinctive sound.

While previous album 2005's The Great Destroyer was postively upbeat by Low standards, these ghostly, effects-laden dirges never fail to get under your skin.

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