LowBest Low Albums Ranked

I Could Live In Hope

pitchfork

9.3

“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the epiphanic debut album from the Duluth slowcore band whose fragile, insistent sound was entirely its own from the beginning.”

Double Negative

thelineofbestfit

9.0

“Double Negative is a profound, romantic return for Low”

Double Negative

pitchfork

8.7

“The austere trio has profoundly warped its slowcore sound to create an ambitious, modern wonder of an album, an exploration of the song as an imperfect conduit of feeling.”

Things We Lost In the Fire

pitchfork

8.7

“When Low emerged from snowy Duluth, Minnesota with their 1994 Kramer-produced debut, *I Could Live in Hope*, their trudging funeral marches, sparse instrumentation, and Royal Albert Hall production values were strikingly fresh. Though they were preceded in the slowcore movement by earlier innovators like Galaxie 500 and Codeine, it was Low that defined the genre's sound. Of course, by their third”

HEY WHAT

pastemagazine

8.6

“Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker’s 13th album in nearly three decades—and first as a duo—is a visceral treatise on modern-day existential dread”

HEY WHAT

pitchfork

8.4

“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.”