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Low are doing a series of two set shows in August in the UK
Low has announced a performance at the Caught By The River Thames Festival on 6th August 2016. It's part of a full UK tour in support of their acclaimed 2015 album Ones and Sixes.
These shows are surely unmissable for fans: billed as "An Evening With Low", the band will play two sets each night, exploring their extensive back catalogue. There will be no supports at any of those shows.
Please check the band's official website for a full list of international shows (the band are currently on tour in the US); with UK performances as follows:
LOW 2016 UK TOUR
1 August - Ashford, Revelation St Mary's*
2 August - Cardiff, Tramsheds*
3 August - Liverpool, Epstein Theatre*
4 August - Gateshead, Sage*
5 August - Leeds, Brudenell Social Club*
6 August - London, Caught By The River Thames Festival
*An Evening With Low (band to play two sets)
The band recently shared their new video for “Into You,” a standout from Ones and Sixes. The visual was directed by Jim Burns and Beth Chalmers, and filmed when Low played in Glasgow, Scotland.
Ones and Sixes garnered year-end praise from the likes of NPR Music (50 Best Albums and “Readers Poll”), MOJO (#13), Drowned in Sound (#16), Under The Radar (#24), The Skinny (#28), Uncut (#37), and Village Voice “Pazz & Jop” (#46).
It earned Low their first-ever U.K. Top 40 chart placing, coming in at #35 on the official albums chart. It also entered at #68 in the U.S. on SoundScan’s Top Current Albums charts. Ones and Sixes also peaked at #7 on the CMJ Top 200 chart.
The album is available from the Sub Pop Mega Mart, iTunes, Bandcamp and all good record stores. There are also new T-shirt designs available at Sub Pop Mega Mart.
What people are saying about Low’s Ones and Sixes
"It's one thing for Low to have made a rewarding career of spare, dramatic, glacially paced music...It's another to make those ingredients sound so incredibly dynamic; to spend 20-plus years making a dozen albums that each feel distinct, and that each introduce new ideas, twists and ways to wring drama out of the space between notes…Throughout Ones and Sixes, the Minnesota trio somehow gives weight to airiness as comfort and discord orbit each other like a binary star. But every time the portent threatens to become overbearing — just as the mix of prettiness and heaviness tips a little too far out of alignment — Low punctures it with a burst of cleansing aggression or some pristine, exquisite surprise. Anything to keep us off balance.” [“First Listen”] - NPR Music
“The band's strengths are here in abundance, but they are reimagined, twisted into new shapes and given a visceral intensity that is utterly irresistible.” [9/10] - CLASH
“...Striking a balance between their majestic, slow-moving melancholy and harsher experimental noise.” [4/5] - The Guardian
"One of the most impressive albums of their career" [4/5] - MOJO
“‘What Part of Me,’ with its upbeat percussion, fuzzy guitar textures and sweet harmonized lyrics about relationship boundaries (‘What part of me don't you own?’), feels like a sideways response to the post-1989 maximalism of today's Top 40; "Into You" is a gospel-inflected, subtly sexy slow jam; and "The Innocents" sets accusatory vocals over a crunching electro-industrial beat, all to excellent effect. Elsewhere, on the gentle, pained duet "Lies," Low remind us they're still masters of doing a lot with a little.” - Rolling Stone
"Ones and Sixes is all at once beautiful, ugly, tense, warm, inviting and repellent. It’s an emotional and sonic juggling act where even the slightest bum-note would draw attention to itself. As always with Low, the beauty is all about the details" - Pitchfork
"Ones and Sixes is an ear-pricking listen." [Album of the Week] - The Observer
"Beautiful desolation....coolly exhilarating" [4/5] - Q