Low - The Invisible Way (Édition StudioMasters) '2013/2018

Tracks list

Tracklist
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01. Plastic Cup
02. Amethyst
03. So Blue
04. Holy Ghost
05. Waiting
06. Clarence White
07. Four Score
08. Just Make It Stop
09. Mother
10. On My Own
11. To Our Knees

The decision to record The Invisible Way at Jeff Tweedys Chicago studio helped
ensnare Tweedy for the producer role and make this album the most
singer/songwriter–like album of Lows slo-core career. Mimi Parker handles
five lead vocals (previously unheard of), with Waiting giving longtime fans an
idea of what Americana ballads would sound like done the Low way. Of course, the
Low way in 2013 is but a distant non-echo of the bands heavily reverbed past,
where the beauty was in the mystic tones that sounded as if they were bouncing
off of a cathedrals walls. Lows songs have been slowly rising to the surface
with instrumental and vocal parts more clearly defined, but never quite like
this. Clarence White could be a tribute to the former Byrds member, but the
lyrics suggest something less quantifiable. So Blue actually threatens to cruise
before the band falls away to better expose the harmonies. Just Make It Stop
sounds like an AM radio piano-based pop tune. Holy Ghost mixes gospel and the
blues as only Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker can design it.

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