Artiste: Low
Nationality: American
Album: I Could Live In Hope
Year: 1994
Label: Vernon Yard
Genre: Slowcore
Tracks:
Words
Fear
Cut
Slide
Lazy
Lullaby
Sea
Down
Drag
Rope
Sunshine
Chronological position: Debut album
Familiarity: Ones and Sixes
Comments: Don't think I've seen an album before that had one-word titles for every song. Oddly, having downloaded all of Low's discography after listening to and enjoying
Ones and Sixes, I chose this one at random, and it turns out to be their debut. Apparently this was one of the albums that helped create the genre of slowcore. Well I can see why it's called that. Very laidback, very relaxed, very downbeat, though at times a little dreary, like on “Rope” and “Cut” but at other times quite breathtakingly beautiful, as on “lullaby” and “Slide”. The cover of “You are my only sunshine” (shortened just to “sunshine”) as the closer is clever and unexpected.
Intention: I'll keep exploring this band. Reckon I'll like them.
