Seek Warmer Climes
Copenhagen band Lower's 2012 EP, Walk on Heads, possessed a specific kind of fury; their full-length debut, Seek Warmer Climes, is more romantic and refined, announcing a shift in Lower's sound. Lower are still noisy, but this time around they're focusing more on the jagged, wordy music you could easily term as "post-punk".
Copenhagen band Lower's 2012 EP, Walk on Heads, possessed a specific kind of fury; their full-length debut, Seek Warmer Climes, is more romantic and refined, announcing a shift in Lower's sound. Lower are still noisy, but this time around they're focusing more on the jagged, wordy music you could easily term as "post-punk".
A clang of steel, a jangle of nerves, the gaping spaces left when songs are stripped of brawn: These have been the hallmarks of post-punk since the genre arose in the late ’70s as both a reaction against and an abstraction of punk. That context may be long gone, but post-punk has found innumerable new pathways through…
A clang of steel, a jangle of nerves, the gaping spaces left when songs are stripped of brawn: These have been the hallmarks of post-punk since the genre arose in the late ’70s as both a reaction against and an abstraction of punk. That context may be long gone, but post-punk has found innumerable new pathways through…
A fraught, anxious and icy forty minutes of post-punk from the Danish quartet.
A fraught, anxious and icy forty minutes of post-punk from the Danish quartet.
A dizzying display of post-hardcore tinged no wave that scrunches up your senses and then obliterates them for good measure.
A dizzying display of post-hardcore tinged no wave that scrunches up your senses and then obliterates them for good measure.
Sounding a bit like PiL had it been fronted by Strummer rather than Lydon, Lower play gothy, "angular" post-hardcore presumably intended to be enigmatically atmospheric.
Sounding a bit like PiL had it been fronted by Strummer rather than Lydon, Lower play gothy, "angular" post-hardcore presumably intended to be enigmatically atmospheric.
Northern Transmissions review of 'Seek Warmer Climes' by Lower, the album comes out on June 17th via Matador Records. The first single is "Soft Option"
Northern Transmissions review of 'Seek Warmer Climes' by Lower, the album comes out on June 17th via Matador Records. The first single is "Soft Option"