High Highs & Low Lows

Koester | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 13, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pitch a Tent
• ASIN: B00006BTBW
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #838,692 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Roman Coin

2. One Day You Too Will Bleed

3. Vow

4. The Blood Red Poppies Of October

5. Transistor Sister

6. Richard, It's Time

7. Mrs. Saturday Night Special

8. Jesus Of The Hammer

9. Jennifer Tiger Hug

10. Flowering Judas

Editorial Reviews

2002 release for the indie rock band featuring members of Sparklehorse, Maki & The Comas. 10 tracks including 'Roman Coin', 'One Day You Too Will Bleed' & 'Vow'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars high highs indeed, September 17, 2002

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"champale2" (from brooklyn to athens and back) - See all my reviews

This review is from: High Highs & Low Lows (Audio CD)

if you dug the first koester record, which i did, this one's a real eye-opener: whereas "oh turpentine" was a wee-hours, insomniac's tour of past romantic conquests and libidinous lost opportunities, "high highs" is a blast of morning sunlight through a grimy bedroom window. less stripped down, more diverse -- with more rockers, and an almost 80s techno feel at times -- "high highs" takes on familiar koester themes in engagingly unfamiliar ways. there's a sense here of conflicting genres being wrestled into submission, and, thankfully, they refuse to comply: the keyboard is, weirdly, king on this record, and provides the record's extreme moods, laying down pastoral orchestral overblow a la led zeppelin on "blood red poppies" and busting out the kraftwerkian teutonic funk on "vow" and "transistor sister." a truly ambitious, ante-upping sophomore effort from a fine songwriter, with heady production from sparklehorse-associate alan weatherhead.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended Highly, August 19, 2002

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S. Mishkin (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: High Highs & Low Lows (Audio CD)

I absolutely love this CD. It took me a spin or two to lock in, but then I was hooked. How to describe? Beatiful songs, great lyrics, somer freaky tones, some real rock. I am a big fan of Wilco & The Flaming Lips and think that The High Highs The Low Lows is right up there with Yankee & Yoshimi. "RIchard It's Time" is achingly beautiful. "Mrs Saturday Night Special" is a great wig-out. The static epic "Flowering Judas" has got to be my favorite song of the past year. . .