Low - I Could Live in Hope /Album Review

Описание: I Could Live in Hope is the debut album by the slowcore band Low. Before I go into more detail about the album as a whole, I would like to dedicate a few words to the song Lullaby, as the central and highest point of this album.

Lullaby is, in my opinion, the best, most powerful and emotionally moving slowcore song I have ever heard in my life. A song under which people share their most intimate, most moving life stories in the comments, which is the greatest indicator of great art and the devastating emotional effect of music on a person, so much so that the song is a companion to which many return during difficult periods in life. Although the majority of the meaning of the song is related to putting a child to sleep who is dying to a premature death, the minimalist lyrics can also be interpreted as any moment when something that seemed gentle, soft, soothing, and sleep-inducing actually shook us to the core, instead of lulling us, and that strong, melancholic guitar crescendo corresponds exactly to that interpretation.

The song Down is also one of my favorites with its interesting guitar work, as it is Drag, which contains that atmosphere of comfort in self-pity because you simply don't know any better, you can't escape it. Rope also atmospherically and textually continues with a fairly clearly indicated theme in the title itself. Sunshine is a song that, textually and atmospherically, stands out from most of the songs on the album, although the intention is clear to me.

An album in which, of course, every song after Lullaby sounds pale and unattainable of that greatness, which only confirms how high the highest point of this album is, although the other songs are also excellent and follow in the footsteps of that atmosphere, sound and interpretation. I would also like to point out that, in my opinion, the strength of Mimi Parker's vocal interpretation far surpasses Alan's.

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