Hot on the heels of the release of their critically acclaimed album, Double Negative, Low have shared a new video for their song Always Trying to Work It Out.’
The visual was co-directed by longtime friend and video collaborator Phil Harder. The band’s Alan Sparhawk had this to say about the video, “We present our slightly Halloween-themed video for ‘Always Trying to Work It Out.’ In which… friends and family star in a stroll through the grocery store; familiar fragments from memory appear; masks are filtering light. Thank you National Sawdust, light tech Shane Donohue, and the Food Co-op in Duluth. It’s dedicated to our city of Duluth.”
“This ranks alongside the likes of Anselm Kiefer and Cormac McCarthy as a document of contemporary social collapse, and as such is the most important, devastating album of the year.” [5/5] – The Guardian
“Not since Bon Iver’s reinvention or even Radiohead’s Kid A have a relatively mainstream band made such an assured volte-face, willfully 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.” [“Album of the Month,” 5/5] –Record Collector
“Low have never made a record quite so jarring and jagged, but Double Negative pushes beyond their own catalogue. Low have made what might be their most relevant album, one that holds a mirror up to the world.” [“Album of the Month,” 9/10] –Uncut
“…It is extraordinary that Low is doing such challenging, relevant work 25 years into their career.” [Best New Music, 8.7/10] – Pitchfork
“With their latest, Double Negative, they’ve gone full-on impressionistic, smearing and distorting sounds to create beautiful songs from distant moments playing on a radio that’s fallen down a wormhole.” – New York Times
“It takes beautiful things and destroys them, and it takes ugly things and renders them celestial.”[“Album of the Week”] – Stereogum
“For a band so often defined by apparent strictures on its sound, Low has proven incredibly versatile. Throughout a catalog that spans 12 studio albums, another dozen or so EPs, a Christmas record that’s justly become a classic, and countless one-offs, it’s upended its formulas constantly while still sounding unmistakably like itself. On the new Double Negative, those patterns hold true amid Low’s most radical reinvention yet.”– [“First Listen”] –NPR
“Double Negative sees Low continue their tradition of producing highly emotional music and delivers their most powerful, direct, and moving work yet.”[9/10] –PopMatters
“A dystopian masterpiece.” [9/10] – CLASH
“The album marks an extraordinary point in the trio’s career – an album rich in darkness and in texture, finding Low in experimental sublimity, further reminding us that their range has only gotten exceptionally larger and better over time.” [9/10] – The Line of Best Fit
“With Double Negative, Low give you the tempest – the here, the now, the fear, the wonder – and they do it uncompromisingly.” [5/5] – The Skinny
“It is an astonishing album, cohesive but wide-ranging, sometimes presenting Low as they were, more often seeing the trio forge on until guitars dissolve, words dissolve, flesh dissolves and everything becomes pure light.” [9/10] – Drowned in Sound
“This is the sound of Low finding extremity in a new, thrilling way.” [4/5] –Q Magazine
“Low are back with a vital-sounding, politically-urgent record that’s perhaps the best of their career.” – The Quietus
“It’s an extraordinary and entirely successful reinvention.” – Sunday Times
“It sounds as though the group are literally trying to convey the sky falling” [Cover feature] – The Wire
“As if galvanised by a world that’s once again collapsing, they’ve pushed their sound even closer to the edge of disintegration.” – Loud & Quiet
“Double Negative is an album of our current moment, both sonically and emotionally, yes, but also one that will transcend it.” – Dusted
Double Negative out now on Sub Pop/Rhythmethod.
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