HEY WHAT
When Low started out in the early ’90s, you could’ve mistaken their slowness for lethargy, when in reality it was a mark of almost supernatural intensity. Like 2018’s *Double Negative*, *Hey What* explores new extremes in their sound, mixing Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker\'s naked harmonies with blocks of noise and distortion that hover in drumless space—tracks such as “Days Like These” and “More” sound more like 18th-century choral music than 21st-century indie rock. Their faith—they’ve been practicing Mormons most of their lives—has never been so evident, not in content so much as purity of conviction: Nearly 30 years after forming, they continue to chase the horizon with a fearlessness that could make anyone a believer.
On the follow-up to 2018’s astonishing Double Negative, Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk push deeper into abstraction, finding fresh angles on the themes that have animated them since the beginning.
The Minnesota band’s 13th album helps cement its status as one of the most indelible and bold acts in rock music
28 years into their career, the band continue to reshape rock, rounding off a trifecta of records that's seen them subtly reinvent themselves
Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker’s 13th album in nearly three decades—and first as a duo—is a visceral treatise on modern-day…
It initially seemed that Low were taking a stylistic detour with the noisy digital landscapes of 2015's Ones and Sixes, an LP produced by BJ Burton that represented a conspicuous change from the more organic tone of their best-known and most celebrated work.
On their thirteenth album as Low, Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker continue to surprise, all testament to the continued dedication to their craft.
Double Negative, Low's hugely celebrated 2018 LP, saw the Duluth, MN-based band moving even further away from their trademark minimal slowco...
There are two Minnesotas. The first one, the one most people know, is just the Twin Cities—the bustling, beating heart of the state which gave rise to the immortal sounds of Prince, and of Minneapolis soul. The other, however, couldn’t be more different from the hypersexual technicolor of The Purple One. As you go north of the Cities toward Low’s hometown of Duluth, the urban jungle gives way to wide-open prairie and, eventually, boreal forest.
It’s hard to think of a band that has the back catalogue of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. Each project Low has released is a singular event.
Complex, imperfect, and never less than completely engrossing – Low are back. Alan Sparhawk & Mimi Parker have made another rich, intricate LP
Low’s ‘Hey What’ finds the duo fully embracing sonic expressionism while further honing their impeccable songcraft. Read our review.
Low's new album 'HEY WHAT' improves upon the experimental 'Double Negative' but has a somewhat predictable formula and mostly lacks drums.
HEY WHAT by Low Album review by Brody Kenny. The band's new full-length comes out on September 10, via Sub Pop Records
The veteran group continue the scorched digital manipulations of 2018 masterpiece Double Negative, but their vocals are left pristine and beautiful