Ones and Sixes

Ones and Sixes

Ones and Sixes is the new album from the Duluth-based trio of Alan Sparhawk, Mimi Parker and Steve Garrington, collectively known as Low. Ones and Sixes was co-produced by Low and BJ Burton at Justin Vernonâ€™s April Base Studios in Eau Claire, WI. â€œIn our 20+ years of writing songs, Iâ€™ve learned that no matter how escapist, divergent, or even transcendent the creative process feels, the result is more beholden to what is going on at the moment. Itâ€™s hard to admit that one is so influenced by what is in front of us. Doesnâ€™t it come from something magical and far away? No, it comes from here. It comes from now. Iâ€™m not going to tell you what this record is about because I have too much respect for that moment when you come to know it for yourself.â€ â€” Alan Sparhawk, Low I spent much of 2002 in Germany, studying literature, collecting new experiences and attempting to process the existential crises so typical of your early 20s. Low â€“ especially their album Things We Lost in the Fire, which I listened to for countless hours â€“ was one of the few bands who helped me along with this. Their slow-growing, minimal, yet expansive songs just beg for introspection. Demand it, even. They cultivate a sense of grandeur and inquiry with their melancholic tone, which, if youâ€™re anything like me, sets you right down in front of the mirror for some much-neglected self-assessment. Is Low somehow The Velvet Undergoundâ€™s song â€œIâ€™ll Be Your Mirrorâ€ transubstantiated into band form? As Alan said above, the meanings of the songs are transitory. Even if there was a specific impetus, nothing needs explaining beyond what the song itself reveals. Itâ€™s an exercise on Lowâ€™s end and, when the music is released, it becomes one for us. Ones and Sixes takes everything Low excels at and dips it in a heavy gold plating of industrial-leaning electronics. This catapults to new and extreme heights the innate beauty their music has always had. Itâ€™s a series of contrasts: stunning and menacing, gorgeous and frightening, giving and desperate, and, ultimately, unbearably heavy and unbearably light. From one to six and back again. â€”Dee Dee Penny (Dum Dum Girls), NYC, June 2015
Country USA
Brand Sub Pop
Manufacturer Sub Pop
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 43171-543692
ReleaseDate 2015-09-11
UnitCount 1
UPCs 098787114423
EANs 0098787114423

Country	USA
Brand	Sub Pop
Manufacturer	Sub Pop
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	43171-543692
ReleaseDate	2015-09-11
UnitCount	1
UPCs	098787114423
EANs	0098787114423

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