Toward the Low Sun

Dirty Three (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 28, 2012)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Drag City
• ASIN: B006WNFKRW
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,839 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2012 release, the first studio album in seven years from this Alt-Rock/Folk trio led by Grinderman/Bad Seeds mainstay Warren Ellis. Toward The Low Sun is a true humdinger. Ellis is always sawing away at something on the violin that kind of tightens our chest and gives us that ol' thousand-yard stare; Mick Turner wanders with hollow-bodied guitar from abstract and dreamy to punishing hard chord rock in the space of a breath, never sacrificing a sense of the awesome along the path; then there's Jim White, who is doing something that no one else does back there. Plus, he's drumming!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Fairly dirty. . . February 28, 2012

By Citizen Arcane

Format:MP3 Music|Amazon Verified Purchase

After about seven years it is good to have yet another release from such a fine group of musicians. However, some of this album, primarily the first half, feels forced, as if all three are waiting for the other to take the lead for the song. The first few songs are almost random notes from each person, though the superb drummer seems as if he's trying to direct the other two. But with that being said, by track six it seems there are finally songs that are listenable that aren't so free-form that they are alienating and the album settles into itself.
I enjoy everything by this band, especially after seeing them live and experiencing just how much construction and effort goes into each performance. Yet this studio album could've been an EP with only half of the songs listed for this album. There's so much potential on this album but it feels like it needed a director of sorts.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Their best album since Ocean Songs!!!! April 9, 2012

By K. Balles

Format:Vinyl

The Dirty Three have finally returned to the sounds that made their first 4 albums up through Ocean Songs oh so devastating! That and the fact that this a clear evolution in their sound, it is all I really need to state, if you love this band you will know what i mean! It's nice to know a band can still make amazing music years after their best stuff, more best here 69!!!!

3.0 out of 5 stars Toward the Low Sun January 23, 2013

By Linda L. Sutherland

Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase

This and all the things below it were gifts. I have no idea how good they are. I have not heard anything bad so assume they are fine.