FACT: C’mon is the shortest title of any album from Low, the Minnesota slow-core specialists whose songs take rather longer to leave an imprint but burn deep.
After railing against the Iraq war on 2007’s Drums And Guns, the Duluth Mormon trio’s ninth album is more introspective – their default position – and comes on as a plea for humanity and common sense in an ever madder, sadder world.
Appropriately, it was recorded in an old church, suitable for such contemplation. “With the last couple of records, we were grappling with something outside ourselves,” says singer-guitarist Alan Sparhawk.
“This one feels more like… I’m looking in your eyes right now and we need to figure out how to get through the next moment together, as human beings.” In other words, Low have quietly made another record precisely in tune with our times.
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