The Low Lows (ex-Parker & Lily) follow-up their 2006 debut with this album of leaner, more hook-laden songs which combine slow, dreamlike balladry with melodically distorted guitar, smashing, trashy drums, pedal steel, three-part vocal harmony, and gospel-tinged, explosive climaxes.

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At first listen, the new record reveals a more feral, leaner balladry. Perhaps inevitably (considering their residence in small-town Georgia) primitive three-part harmony abounds, and steel guitar pervades most tracks, but these elements are incongruously trapped in an urban lo-fi noise-rock aesthetic like insects in amber. Noon's lyrics are stark though never bleak, and recount confessional love stories in a concentrated, reverberative, obliquely tragic prose, as if a Cormac McCarthy novel had been set to...   [ read more ]

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Led by Steve Koester, Koester's sophomore record, The High Highs the Low Lows, is a contemporary space rock trip through territory similar to that covered by Spiritualized, Radiohead, and Sparklehorse. High Highs is not only a lyrical examination of the crystal-clear highs & the curb-kissing lows we all go through, but also a sonic exploration of the high-tech & the low-tech, the mechanical & the organic, the past's idea of the future & the future's past. . . or something like that.

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