#732

There’s a definite change on Trust and onwards, but I’d hardly call it going downhill.

#733

No love for Secret Name round here? My favourite album by a short nose. Their first Kranky album, perfect Albini production. And for me the sweet spot between the classic, glacial sound that @incandenza mentions before they became much more expansive (I absolutely hated the Dinosaur Act single when it came out - and it hasn’t grown on me since, although TWLITF is mainly great (obviously)). And it has Two Step on it, their best song.

@Yvash Christmas = 10/10 .

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#734

Yes. This. Such a magical song.

Weight of Water is pretty special too.

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#735

ICLIH - 8
Long Division - 8.5
CHTC - 8.5
Secret Name - 9
TWLITF - 9.5
Trust - 7.5
Great Destroyer - 7.5
Drums & Guns - 8.5
C’mon - 7
TIW - 7
Ones and Sixes - 8.5
DN - 9

What a band

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#736

Secret Name is one of their best fo’ sho’

#737

I could live in Hope is a stone cold 10 for me, chaps.

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#738

Find it odd that Trust is getting scores that are so low.

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#739

Each to their own innit.

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#740

Never got on with Canada and Candy Girl.
Everything else on it is good to great though.

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#741

Yeah Candy Girl is a slog. I like Canada on its own but its a bit jarring after the opener. 7 of the last 10 tracks are golden though.

#742

Nice one Tom! Nice one.

#743

John Prine?

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#744

I Could Live In Hope - 8.5
Long Division - 7.5 (I don’t know it so well - might be a higher score than this)
The Curtain Hits The Cast - 8.5
Secret Name - 8
Christmas - 10 (plus an extra point because my copy of it is signed by Alan :slight_smile: )
Things We Lost In The Fire - 9
Trust - 9
The Great Destroyer - 8.5
Drums & Guns - 8.5
C’mon - 7
The Invisible Way - 6
Ones and Sixes - 8
Double Negative - 9

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#745

Yes, great shout.
That’s 3 songs on a 13 track album. Would have been an easy fix.
A pity, because there is tremendous stuff on there too.

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#746

I think The Lamb is also a dirgey borefest.

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#747

I’m not throwing away any more Low songs
There will be no sacrifical lamb added to my Trust cull. :wink:

#748

Those are the 4 poor tracks for me. Cutting it to 9 would be fine really, though you cut get away with The Lamb in the middle of a more condensed album

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#749

I think this is true of all Low albums for me, with the exception of Double Negative. Each of them have always had skippable tracks, so i’ve always had ‘versions’ of Low albums that I listen to that prune some of the fat to really get to the good stuff.

There’s no fat on DN, though. It’s absolutely perfect as it is. Hence my favourite Low album now.

#750

The Son & The Sun + Dancing & Fire is a bit of a slog after a couple listens for me.

#751

Hah! Dancing & Fire is one of my favourites! :smiley:

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