Low - HEY WHAT
 

Considering all the glitchin'-a-go-go, this may not be the best time to start a new thread — and apologies in advance to hipster_bebop_junkie, who has been posting major Low (or LOW, as he and _tunic_ call the band) announcements since I don't know when, but given that I just received the respective Bandcamp notification, I couldn't help myself. :) The details:




https://lowtheband.bandcamp.com/album/hey-what

Their new Bandcamp pic (at least I think it's new) finds Alan going all pastoral Zep on us: Robert Plant hair and there's a black dog! But where's Steve? He can't be the canine, can he? Now that'd be some Aleister Crowley Zoso shit right there!

Steve is no longer part of LOW. Alan mentioned/confirmed this a little while ago on a Q & A on Instagram. It's a new incarnation now. Maybe Cyrus will be the new bass player.

Anyway, I have pre-ordered the vinyl Loser edition of "HEY WHAT", and also the cassette tape.

Steve is no longer part of LOW. Alan mentioned/confirmed this a little while ago on a Q & A on Instagram. It's a new incarnation now. Maybe Cyrus will be the new bass player.

Anyway, I have pre-ordered the vinyl Loser edition of "HEY WHAT", and also the cassette tape.

Wow, I had no idea. So that's, what, at least the fourth bass player gone now? If we weren't talking about a band that's nearly 30 years old I'd say we're entering Spinal Tap territory... It's a bit jarring to me because my impression was that Steve was very involved in the creation of Double Negative - Mimi said to Uncut that sometimes Sparhawk and Garrington would work overnight and in the morning they'd play the new song to her (and she would say, "That's a song?" :)).

Will the dog be the new bass player?

Too bad Steve has left, he's a great musician, both in Low and Retribution Gospel Choir. Just hear him do the organ on the two Organ Reframed concerts. But it must be hard to be the third wheel on the wagon, and perhaps the Covid bubbles also had a part in it.


Looks like the new album will be a continuation of the previous one, with the distortion and over-saturation. Upon first listen I do like the one track that's streaming already, almost seems like Nils Frahm is guesting.


Oh, I did miss most of those live sessions they've done lately. Would have been nice to watch the progress of these new songs played/practiced live.

New song is great, can’t wait.

Haven’t been here as much lately, but I still feel as though Low is somehow the second-most beloved band on this forum behind the band whom the forum is devoted to.
Great to have a shit ton of Low lovers on this site, alongside lifelong SY-heads

Warms my heart

I appreciate Steve's contributions to LOW during the last few years, especially live. I'm being double positive about the change, though. BJ Burton in his role as producer seems to be very important to LOW's sound lately and they opted to recruit him once again for this record.

All "Friday I'm In Low" sessions are archived here, and there are some versions of a few songs apparently from "HEY WHAT" already scattered over there:

https://moppycouk.wixsite.com/fridayiminlow/#

I've posted about it before but in case it flew by, a demo of "Days Like These" appears on a compilation assembled to donate funds to students in need during the COVID pandemic:
https://clcaudioclub.bandcamp.com/al...d-during-covid

Finally, the video for "Days Like These" is now up on Youboob:
https://youtu.be/d8QiSZRX8dA

I thought it was The Verlaines. Then I woke up. ;)

Seriously though, I think we "Low lovers" (Lowers?) can be just more vociferous, not necessarily more numerous. Nirvana, My Bloody Valentine and Dinosaur Jr. are probably more popular than Low in this joint. Heck, even Sunn O))) are (or were, at one point) stronger candidates for #2. And by #2 I mean —oh, forget it, that wasn't gonna be a good joke...

Thank you! Cyrus, eh? If he ends up being the new bass player, we could say Alan "pulled a Tweedy" (or a Peter Perrett, for that matter).

Maybe Hollis may join, too. She's always been kind of a rock star, as the internet can attest. For instance, this video will always be a winner. I think she's also the mastermind who kept LOW close to us in this shitty times by filming the instagram Friday I'm In LOWs.

It's nice to see LOW still can be a topic in this board. Even if it has been just a few of us (far from a ton for sure) keeping the threads going, it always has felt a bit important to me to maintain these interactions. Other bands/artists I love certainly haven't resonated that much around here.

I forgot Swans. There are, or were, a fuckton of Swans fans here as well

True. Maybe a bit less after Gira responded to Larkin Grimm's accusation of rape using basically the EXACT SAME PLAYBOOK as EVERY motherfucker out there:

1.- (Deny, deny, deny.)
2.- IF I've hurt someone, I apologize because nobody cares for women more than I do .
3.- Something did happen, but she got confused.

On the other hand, that's probably just wishful thinking and the only reason we don't hear more about Swans here now is that less people are posting about anything anyway. Oh, and the board is broken.

^ The Electric Fetus is a tremendous institution in Minnesota music (53 years and counting!). Until recently they had a store in Duluth (who knows how many hours Mimi, Alan and co. spent there), but they had to close it down. :( Fortunately, their main Minneapolis HQ is still running.

I was thinking about ordering the red version. Have the new Lingua Ignota record on pre-order, also on (transparent) red vinyl. It is the color of love. Too bad I jumped like a ton of bricks on the Loser Baby edition.

Eh, love is overrated - buncha synapses misfiring left and right. Better and more honest to be a Loser Baby! :D

Well fuck!! This forum is still good for something. Can't wait.

Well fuck!! This forum is still good for something. Can't wait.

Hi.

New video for "Disappearing":
https://youtu.be/w9JyjipKBJk

Great interview and performance by Alan Sparhawk for Sacred Heart Music Center's Songwriters/Storytellers series:
https://youtu.be/nUBp4EWieEc

HEY WHAT is on Wilco's Summer Playlist. I guess they got an advance copy from the source. :)

https://mailchi.mp/wilcoworld/wilcos-summer-playlist

And nobody noticed that one of the links of those record stores was right? They both were the same one for EF,it's corrected now

Excellent. I love this song. It was performed on the last Friday I'm in LOW, and Alan got very candid on how to achieve the sounds on this one:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CShwo23FMDs/

Interesting concept behind the video as well:

It's an honor to share the video for 'More', the third track from our upcoming album HEY WHAT. Directed by Julie Casper Roth, it metaphorically explores the Sisyphean task of dismantling structural oppression, through gender biases.


:)

The Wire already reviewed HEY WHAT.

Basically, it says it's bitchen.

That's all I'm at liberty to share.
:D

Another publication including some LOW-related content:
https://goldflakepaint.bandcamp.com/...e-9-lucy-dacus

And another...



"A new language", eh? :)

there's an interview with Mr Sparhawk on Pitchfork:
https://pitchfork.com/features/inter...hawk-hey-what/

The Quietus interviews LOW about "Hey What" and also looks back at the rest of their catalog:
https://thequietus.com/articles/30467-low-interview

This isn't about HEY WHAT, but follow the link - Low and The Drones are such tremendous bands that there had to be a connection:

http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...&postcount=160

Hey HEY WHAT just released! Gonna give it a spin. Can I get a WHAT WHAT?

Possibly the best album of the year

From Bandcamp Daily:

That illustration on Bancamp Daily is so pretty (even though Blue the black dog was omitted). I want it in a poster.

HEY WHAT WHAT WHAT IN THE BUTT rocks my soul. For someone who loves abstractions, noise, and distortions (as well as beauty and melody), this one's so wholesome.

Here's the video for "White Horses":
https://youtu.be/sebDnwlEnPs
Now two of my favorite bands have a song called the same. <3

Mimi and Alan interviewed by NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/10360...ever-searching

Well, 1600x950 pixels is a very decent size, nice enough for you to take it to a professional printing place and have it enlarged to poster proportions. That's what I did with some images when I went to see Wilco, and also when I attended a Patti Smith concert, and both of them LOVED IT. I'm too cool for school, really. :cool:


From now on we should call the album HEY WHAT WHAT WHAT IN THE BUTT, or HWWWITB for the impatient ones amongst ya. :D


What's the other band? I don't think you're referring to Gillian Welch's "Six White Horses", and I hope you're not mistaking the title of a Stones classic... ;)

Alan Sparhawk interviewed by Loud And Quiet:
https://www.loudandquiet.com/intervi...c-cacophonies/