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Things We Lost in the Fire | 
| Artist: Low
Label: Tugboat
Category: Music
List Price: £13.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 9531
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5018615432722
ASIN: B000056L2J
Release Date: February 12, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Sunflower | | • | Whitetail | | • | Dinosaur Act | | • | Medicine | | • | Magazines | | • | Laser Beam | | • | July | | • | Embrace | | • | Whore | | • | Kind of Girl | | • | Like A Forest | | • | Closer | | • | In Metal |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Quieter, slower, softer; that's the motto of Minnesota's Low. The Christmas EP, first released in 1999, saw this Mormon slowcore trio reinterpreting a number of seasonal standards and writing a few new ones in their own pared-down style; a first-time listener might assume it was the heritage of songs like "Little Drummer Boy" that lent Christmas its quiet power. They'd be wrong; Things We Lost In The Fire, Low's magnificent fifth album, is proof that while they may be shy of performing the grand gesture, a genuine sense of timelessness pervades every hushed moment. Ironically, Low's relationship with their producer--celebrated noisenik Steve Albini--has done them a lot of favours. His bare-board style lends Things We Lost In The Fire a sense of beautiful desolation, bringing the harmonies of husband-and-wife Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker to the fore on "Medicine And Magazines" and "Whore". The tunes, when they come, are breathtaking in their simplicity; take "Dinosaur Act", where a power chord clangs--and then echoes, immeasurably, over a whisper of Wurlitzer organ and the delicate tap of a snare drum. It's the perfect example of strong words softly spoken. Low may have shunned the attention-seeking clutter of the modern pop song, but the earth will do well to inherit the meek. --Louis Pattison
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Buy this on Vinyl! August 31, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Low's songs are minimal musical pieces, brilliant compositions and beautiful vocals. Definately check them out if you are looking for an original sound these days. On the vinyl album, you get 2 bonus tracks + the lyrics of the songs HAND WRITTEN on the 4th side of the record. It's a must have!
Beautiful November 22, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
So hard to categorise Low. I was first introduced to them through this album, and have acquired every recording since then. This album sums them up. Tender , kind and enigmatic lyrics are sung by Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. And they are quite simply the most beautiful harmonies I have ever heard. To me they have re-defined pop music, snd everything I hear now is benchmarked against this album.
 a haunted hubley and kaplan April 26, 2003
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I don't know, maybe it's narrow to say that `Things We Lost In The Fire` is the murky, the arcane, backwoodsian cousin to Yo La Tengo when the latter skip noise for sweet, harmonious acoustica. Maybe, but it's a pretty good frame to reference, if only for a little while. "When they found your body/giant Xs on your eyes/with your half of the ransom/I bought some sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet sunflowers/and gave them to the night" responds the opening lyric, Parker and Sparhawks harmonising like a haunted Hubley and Kaplan. Maybe it's more upbeat than previous works but really even then it rarely rises above a hush, and `Dinosaur Act`, the most rockin' thing here, still manages to slope and saunter. The lyrics and the sometimes murky Albini mix might sound spooked and oblique but they're infused with subtle romanticism and moments of sublime beauty, "things we lost in the fire/how did we ever get by/words we'll never take back/hold me closer than that".
Quiet, fragile, stately, beautifully brilliant... June 5, 2001
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
Things we lost in the fire, for the most part, carries the sound of a band defeated. Lyrically, Sunflower, Laser Beam and Dinosaur Act seem to question Low's place in modern society. Yet they never achieve anything more than a snail's pace, so that even minor changes of tempo, such as on Dinosaur Act, are magnified, almost akin to the work of composers such as Gorecki. The fragility of the songs almost reaches breaking point on the tender and delicate July, a paranoia-laced lament on hibernation. Low themselves appear to be heading into hibernation, slowing, meditating, and they take their music with them. Yet, despite it all, the album is emotionally involving, and when the end is reached, and the shaft of light that is the Eno-esque In Metal shines through, all the darkness that has gone before is banished. Beautiful and eventually uplifting, this is an album that demands listening to.
Downlifting - In a good way (?!) April 27, 2001
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
To be honest I don't know why I bought this cd. It's not my usual choice (being an Air girl myself) but I still find most of the tracks amazing. Laser Beam is almost JJ72, Sunflower is just brilliant and the rest are just good - it just depends on your mood.It won't uplift you but it will make you glad to have ears. The vocals are fantastic, perfectly tuned and almost addictive to listen to. Good background music for when you're by yourself but if you're after cheeriness then don't bother. If you can afford to, buy it...
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