It looks like the Low thread has disappeared, which is sad to see.
https://community.drownedinsound.com/t/low-rolling-thread/2330/
The last copy from the Wayback Machine is here.
Here’s a replacement Low thread.
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Clearly users have the right to be forgotten (and no issue there, hope they’re okay) but I feel really sad to see this thread go. I was re-reading some of the tributes to Mimi the other day. I might post something on Site Feedback (though it might have already been covered).
Bloody love Low, and glad to see that Alan is making a decent stab at a solo career. Can’t imagine how much strength that must take 
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Yeah, well put, bit of a double whammy of shock with this one.
This is a real shame. Was that thread the listening club too?
Ah that sucks. Not sure I have the photo of me and Alan elsewhere. Hopefully sent it to the missus on WhatsApp or something
how come the original poster’s gone? that’s really surprising, I hope they’re okay?
No, that one’s still there
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Hey @moderators does locking a thread save it from being nuked if an user leaves the board? or does it still disappear??
Afaik it would still go. Normally we ask users if they want any threads kept before deleting so that they can be transferred out, but any that they don’t ask to keep will disappear
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There’s a thread on site feedback which explains it
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Yep, locking just means you can’t add new posts to it.
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Dunno if that links to the right track but perfume genius and Alan have reworked point of disgust
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Track here
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I Could Live in Hope is 30 years old today.
Alan has written some nice words on Instagram, including where the title came from
https://www.instagram.com/p/DDF27AjJh2O/?igsh=MWZhMW53NzVjcnNyaQ==
No idea how readable this will be but here’s a screenshot
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From Kramer via the Low group on Facebook:
Released 30 years ago today, or thereabouts…
LOW
‘I COULD LIVE IN HOPE’
Al Sparhawk
Mimi Parkler
John Nichols
Produced by Kramer
"At Shimmy-Disc, I used to receive hundreds of cassette demos every month. Most could be tossed into the trash quickly - hair bands, satan-metal bands, bands that strived so hard to be Fleetwood Mac or Guns & Roses. I could tell right away by a glance at the photos in the accompanying presskits. Sorry. Not my thing.
Then one day, a cassette arrived - just barely - in a half torn envelope. The return address was gone. Hanging half-out by a thread was a cassette with a piece of paper held tight to it by an old rubberband, which snapped as i removed it. I opened the note…
'We are Low. We hope you like our music."
Nothing more. Just those 9 words. My heart raced. I ran over my cat and into the studio and popped the tape into the machine…
Three songs later i was staring at the envelope this life-altering tape had arrived in. It had a Duluth MN postmark on it. I called Duluth’s college radio station program manager and asked him if he’d ever heard of a band called LOW.
‘Oh yeah, sure. They’re pretty good. The guy who runs it, his name is Al Spakhawk. Nice guy. Want me to give him your number?’
Two weeks later Al and Mimi and John had driven to Noise New Jersey all the way from Duluth and were recording an LP that was to be called ‘I COULD LIVE IN HOPE’.
In a perfect world, it should have been released on Shimmy-Disc, but I had a friend who’d just been named Head of A&R at a brand new Virgin Records subsidiary label in NYC that had the $$$ to actually DO something for this band, so, a few days after i’d finished mixing the LP, i brought her a cassette. After three songs (again), she stopped the machine, looked me in the eye, and said, ‘Has anyone else heard this yet?’
30 years later, i’m listening to it again… stunned by the naked artistry of it all; those unostentatious melodies, those two empyrean voices, as if from a dream, and oh, those immaculate silences… we dream on, breathing the omniscient air of LOW.
30 years ago, or thereabouts."
-Kramer
12/2/2024
Asheville, NC
-Kramer, Dec 2, 2024
Asheville, NC
@lowtheband low #icouldliveinhope #kramershimmy
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Reader, I welled up during that.
https://link.dice.fm/0wIkNM1QePb?sharer_id=55b6c49463051f29f501276e
London earth May 29th
Really enjoying this Perfume Genius / Alan Sparhawk collaboration
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Oh shit, already chatted about
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