{"id":1747,"date":"2018-06-19T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2018-06-18T12:58:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T11:58:14","slug":"low-double-negative-14sep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/low-double-negative-14sep\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Low \u2013 <em>Double Negative<\/em>, out 14 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Low - Double Negative\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/offers.php#r180914_Low\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"Low - Double Negative\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/1809\/Low.jpg\" alt=\"Low - Double Negative\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Low<\/strong> turns twenty-five in 2018. Since 1993, Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker \u2013 the married couple whose heaven-and-earth harmonies have always held the band\u2019s centre \u2013 have pioneered a subgenre, shrugged off its strictures, recorded a Christmas classic, become a magnetic onstage force and emerged as one of music\u2019s most steadfast and vital vehicles for pulling light from our darkest emotional recesses. But Low will not commemorate its first quarter-century with mawkish nostalgia or safe runs through songbook favourites. Instead, in faithfully defiant fashion, the duo releases its most brazen, abrasive (and, paradoxically, most empowering) album ever: <strong><em>Double Negative<\/em><\/strong>, an unflinching eleven-song quest through snarling static and shattering beats that somehow culminates in the brightest pop song of Low\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p><em>Double Negative<\/em> is, indeed, a record perfectly and painfully suited for our time. Loud and contentious and commanding, Low fights <em>for<\/em> the world by fighting <em>against<\/em> it. It begins in pure bedlam, with a beat built from a loop of ruptured noise waging war against the paired voices of Sparhawk and Parker the moment they begin to sing during the massive \u2018Quorum\u2019. For forty minutes, they indulge the battle, trying to be heard amid the noisy grain, sometimes winning and sometimes being tossed toward oblivion. In spite of the mounting noise, Sparhawk and Parker still sing. Or maybe they sing because of the noise. For Low, has there ever really been a difference?<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: The LP is available on <strong>indies-only crystal clear vinyl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re offering <a title=\"Low - Double Negative\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/offers.php#r180914_Low\"><em>Double Negative<\/em><\/a> at <strong class=\"darkred\">special pre-sale prices<\/strong>, which won\u2019t be available after release. <a href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/offers.php#r180914_Low\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low turns twenty-five in 2018. Since 1993, Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker \u2013 the married couple whose heaven-and-earth harmonies have always held the band\u2019s centre \u2013 have pioneered a subgenre, shrugged off its strictures, recorded a Christmas classic, become a magnetic onstage force and emerged as one of music\u2019s most steadfast and vital vehicles for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[341,36,829,830,194],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-low","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-special-offer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}