Double Negative
The twelfth album, and Garrington's last as the bassist.
Low, 2018
- Released
- 14 September 2018
- Studio
- April Base, Fall Creek, Wisconsin, and The Terrarium, Minneapolis
- Label
- Sub Pop
- Producer
- BJ Burton
- Length
- 48:50
Recorded over about two years with BJ Burton at April Base in Wisconsin and at The Terrarium in Minneapolis, the twelfth album was Steve Garrington's last with the band. Pitchfork's Rich Juzwiak, who scored it 8.7, wrote that Garrington sampled and contorted vocals, and that the title happened to match a remark Donald Trump made in July 2018. He added that Sparhawk had told The Wire that the Trump administration made him question humanity, logic and modern society. Maaika van der Linde plays bass flute on Always Up.
Parker sings lead on Dancing and Blood and Fly, and speaks on the instrumental The Son, the Sun. Metacritic scores it 86. The Guardian's Alexis Petridis wrote that it did not sound like anything else in Low's catalogue or beyond.
Track listing
- Quorum3:42
- Dancing and Blood6:22
- Fly5:48
- Tempest4:48
- Always Up5:28
- Always Trying to Work It Out3:55
- The Son, the Sun3:30
- Dancing and Fire4:17
- Poor Sucker3:35
- Rome (Always in the Dark)3:32
- Disarray3:52
Personnel
- Alan Sparhawk guitar, vocals
- Mimi Parker vocals, percussion
- Steve Garrington bass guitar
- BJ Burton recording, mixing, mastering
- Maaika van der Linde bass flute on Always Up
- Brett Bullion assistant engineering
- Zach Hanson assistant engineering
- Peter Liversidge artwork, photos
More from Low
I Could Live in Hope (1994), Long Division (1995), The Curtain Hits the Cast (1996), Secret Name (1999), Things We Lost in the Fire (2001), Trust (2002), The Great Destroyer (2005), Drums and Guns (2007), C'mon (2011), The Invisible Way (2013), Ones and Sixes (2015), Hey What (2021)
Sources
- Double Negative (Low album), Wikipedia
- Low: Double Negative, Pitchfork (2018-09-14)