Low
Secret Name

Today my thoughts are directed towards a group and an Album that I adore very much... a dilatory dream... "Secret Name"

When talking about Low, it's difficult to find the right words because we're talking about a group with multiple personalities and, retrospectively speaking, full of hidden secrets, great creators of masterpieces with a healthy DNA.

I can say that this Album is not that different from the previous ones, but it stands out with the arrival of sporadic and well-accepted intrusions of strings and piano, which emphasize the stability of bass-guitar and drums, and aim to give a distinct "turn" to the group, with the intention of offering a more pronounced lightness and catchiness. Until now, the refined taste of this trio has been limited to a selected inner circle of true devoted followers, but in "Trust", "Things We Lost In The Fire", and subsequent works, they will, on the contrary, allow a wider accessibility to "collective" interpretation, in other words, a free relationship of total need between audience and direct sales, in full spirituality, sacred and religious chants.

Along the way, the low and gloomy voice of Alan (also guitar and piano) travels and merges with full affinity and complicity with the very delicate voice of his wife Mimi (also drums) and the third member, also bassist, constantly changing, for "Secret Name" we're talking about Zak, meet for the recording, the producer, Steve Albini, who adds his touch, enriching the basic structures of the songs and accentuating the vocals. A troubled phenomenon where one savors an incredible mixture of indie-rock, reaching peaks of pop and slo-core. Listening to each individual track is an intense reflection on "their genre" slow and hypnotizing, gloomy and depressive, effervescent and sunny, poetry and chant of subdued prayers, elegance, and rarefied simplicity, essentially, a sort of bizarre and creative pass for real, daily sensations, nothing that should theoretically overwhelm, but in reality, fascinates and captures even the coldest soul.

"I Remember" lugubrious march, "Starfire" total clarity, "Two-Step" a sweet dream, "Weight Of Water" simply perfect, "Missouri" a distant memory, "Don't Understand" a hint of native whimsy, "Soon" closing your eyes letting yourself be lulled, "Immune" the title says it all, "Lion/Lamb" perfect participation of strings and piano, "Days Of..." a thorn in the heart, "Will The Night" strings from earthly paradise, fantastic! "Home" a rarefied closure, a unique gem.

It is enchanting to listen to them in a fusion of voice, lyrics and sounds that take on a compact form in an atmosphere of worlds unknown to us, which becomes ours only because they are palpable through dreams themselves, so I'd say pure emotion.

Low... Platonic Love or Tangible Love?