Setlist

No Comprende
The Invisible Way
Spanish Translation
The Innocents
What Part of Me
DJ
Clarence White
Kid in a Corner
Lies
Landslide

Duluth, MN trio Low just released their latest, Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop Records) on Friday and celebrated its emergence with an appearance at local store Electric Fetus’ annual Fall Festival and Garage Sale with a generous 50min. in-store live set.

The band left their friendly confines of the north shore, to record and co-produce at Bon Iver’s April Base studios in Eau Claire, WI and the result is a work laced with immediacy – “It comes from here. It comes from now. I’m not going to tell you what this record is about”, singer Alan Sparhawk says describing the new record.

“We’ve got the sun comin’ in on us” Sparhawk winced towards the window, due to playing an afternoon set, before strumming the first few chords of current single, ‘No Comprende’. The band then dialed back to 2013 for ‘The Invisible Way’, with mostly seated bassist Steve Garrigan splitting his time between bass and keys for the set.

Drummer and Sparhawk’s wife Mimi Parker took over lead for the crawling ‘The Innocents’, which was counterbalanced by the almost peppy ‘What Part of Me’ played next, both from the new album. The album’s closer, ‘DJ’, has Sparhawk at his most Mormon inspired, with its lyric, “You want religion / You want assurance / A resurrection / Some kind of purpose / You had the vision”.

‘Clarence White’ was a muddy churner from 2013’s The Invisible Way, ending sparsely, the new ‘Kid in a Corner’ brought things up again, and ‘Lies’ was dark but beautiful. The devastating tension build of the ten-minute ‘Landslide’ ended the in-store, in which the band played a full ¾ of the new album.

For anyone wanting another taste, or a more full and complete set, Low is on tour through the end of the year with a return appearance locally, in the Mainroom at First Avenue on November 11, a date which should be dark and cold enough to be the perfect setting for their music.

Tour dates:

09/18 Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon*
09/19 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall*
09/21 Toronto, ON – The Mod Club*
09/22 Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz PDB*
09/23 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall*
09/24 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall
09/25 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s*
09/26 Washington, DC – Black Cat*
10/07 Manchester, UK – Cathedral ^
10/08 Glasgow, UK – Art School
10/10 London, UK – Roundhouse ^
10/12 Koln, DE – Gebaude 9
10/13 Hamburg, DE – Knust
10/14 Copenhagen, DK – Vega
10/15 Stockholm, SE – Kagelbanan
10/17 Berlin, DE – Lido
10/19 Munich, DE – Ampere

10/20 Bologna, IT – Teatro Antoniano
10/22 Zaragoza, ES – Las Armas
10/23 Barcelona, ES – Bikini
10/24 Valencia, ES – Deleste Festival
10/26 Madrid, ES – Teatro Lara
10/27 Santander, ES – Escenario
10/29 Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso ^
10/31 Brussels, BE – AB
11/11 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue*
11/13 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge*
11/14 Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex*
11/16 Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour*
11/18 SF, CA – Great American Music Hall*
11/20 Portland, OR – Doug Fir*
11/21 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile*

* with Andy Shauf /
^ with Two Gallants