New Low Album and Video

From the new album Guns and Drums out this week from Low, check out the first video from the band's sophomore record on Sub Pop. I haven't had a chance to listen to the whole record yet - so here's the spin...



Drums and Guns is the latest collection of songs by Low.

Recorded with Dave Fridmann and joined by Matt Livingston on bass; Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker have created a soundtrack for post-traumatic shock.

One imagines a world seen through night goggles; abandonment at the ravaged frontiers of a puppet state; the brainwashed hysteria of teenage guerrillas planting IEDs.

The menace breathes and seethes in silence, in a malefic dreamtime.

The voices-bracing and seductive - are upfront and clear.

The beats skitter as textures evaporate.

The arrangements have been robbed of all their valuables.

The message is clear.

This is the most important album of the year.

—Jonathan Poneman, Dec. 2006





Low - Breaker - MP3