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\u201cLow always reach such beautiful highs\u201d \u2013 NME
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\u201cEvery single note matters.\u201d \u2013 The Sunday Times<\/i><\/p>\n
Big, simple, raw, and intimate.<\/p>\n
Low\u2019s crushingly-beautiful music is a series of dichotomies: stunning and menacing, gorgeous and frightening, giving and desperate, and ultimately, unbearably heavy and unbearably light. To borrow a phrase from their most recent album, it goes from one to six and back again.<\/p>\n
For 20+ years, the songwriting duo of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker (married, with kids) and, more recently, Steve Garrington, have created some of the most low-key high-profile music out there. \u201cYou know our M.O,\u201d<\/i>frontmanSparhawk has said with characteristic sparseness, \u201c<\/i>Slow, quiet, sometimes melancholy, and, we hope, sometimes pretty…\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
For us here at Split Works, it\u2019s hard to think of music that\u2019s prettier. We\u2019re enormously excited to welcome Low <\/b>back to Shanghai, for a special one-night-only performance. Saturday 20 May, <\/b>at the Bandai Namco Shanghai Base\u2019s<\/b> (formerly QSW Culture Centre)<\/b>intimate Future House (<\/b>formerly Q House). <\/b>Presale tickets are 180 RMB, with a support act TBC.<\/i><\/p>\n
They\u2019ve released 12 albums, the latest 2015\u2019s Ones and Sixes,<\/i> and are currently signed to the influential Sub Pop label. Many of these dozen albums have been quiet and beautiful and silently menacing, but the \u2018Low sound\u2019 has taken some interesting detours.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve veered into louder territory (2005\u2019s The Great Destroyer<\/i>) and glitchy, electronic darkness (2007\u2019s Drums and Guns<\/i>), and seem to have settled on time-honored strengths: slow-growing, minimal yet expansive songs that just beg for introspection.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our 20+ years of writing songs,\u201d Sparhawk says about their latest album, \u201cI\u2019ve 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
That relevance is part of what makes Low special. A willingness to hold a mirror up – not just to one\u2019s internal life, but the society they find themselves in. Their open-ended melodic stories are, above all, an experience<\/i>, at once understandable and mysterious.<\/p>\n
Saturday 20 May, <\/b>at the Bandai Namco Shanghai Base Future House. <\/b>Expect an evening of subterranean pop with a spectral spark.<\/p>\n Split Works Presents:\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/i><\/i>LOW<\/b><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n \u3010Shanghai\u3011<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPRE-SALE LINK: https:\/\/yoopay.cn\/event\/LOWshanghai<\/a>
\n* Pre-sales end at 12 noon, May.20th, 2017
\nTickets once sold cannot be refunded!
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