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4.0 out of 5 stars
Strong tribute album, April 20, 2008
This review is from: We Could Live in Hope: A Tribute to Low (Audio CD)
Low is the revered slowcore band, the epitome of the genre and its most durable practioner. Although their sound has evolved a bit since they got started in the mid 90's, adding heavier, louder elements, this collection of covers stays down in the groove, down on the low side of the bill with emblematic slowcore acts like Idaho, Mark Kozelek of the Red House Painters, and Low soundalikes the Winter Blanket. The first part of the album is pretty neutral, well-executed covers but nothing more from the likes of Pale Horse and Rider and the Strugglers, and the listener comes to the conclusion that this is going to be a walk through, a pleasant listen for Low fans but short on memorable material. Kozelek's version of "Lazy" dispels this notion; Kozelek does a masterful job with covers (famously recording a whole album of AC/DC tunes circa Bon Scott), and "Lazy" comes across wonderfully. The next three songs fall back into disposible reverence, but the record ends beuatifully with three strong efforts in a row, The Winter Blanket's "Drag," Idaho's "Rope," tailor-made, and the overlooked Migala on "Words," the album's standout track other than "Lazy." The album closes with Low's "Sunshine," an arrangment of "You Are My Sunshine," and by this point any Low fan will have more than gotten their money's worth.
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