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2) Low is a Danish rapper.
3) Low is a Spanish hip hop artist.
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5) Low is a slowcore band formed in Duluth, Minnesota, United States in 1993, by Alan Sparhawk (guitar and vocals), Mimi Parker (drums and vocals) and original bassist John Nichols (bass guitar). Zak Sally replaced Nichols after Low's first album and tour. In 2005, Sally quit the band; Matt Livingston replaced him shortly thereafter. In 2008 Steve Garrington took over on bass creating the current lineup of Sparhawk, Parker and Garrington.
Their music is commonly described as "slowcore," a subgenre characterised by slow tempos and minimalist arrangements. They are one of the earlier bands to adopt and popularize the style, making them considerable contributors to the slowcore movement. (It is worth noting that the band dislikes this label. In an interview Alan Sparhawk says of descriptions of their music: "What's the cheesiest? Slow-core. I hate that word. The most appropriate is anything that uses the word minimal in it, but I don't think anybody's made one up for that") Parker and Sparhawk's striking vocal harmonies represent perhaps the group's most distinctive element.
History
The band formed in the spring of 1993. Sparhawk had been playing in the Duluth, Minnesota, band Zen Identity. That band needed a new bassist, and Nichols was recruited. At that time, Nichols was a senior at Superior Senior High School in nearby Superior, Wisconsin, and bassist in the band Lorenzo's Tractor. Sparhawk was called upon to teach Zen Identity songs to Nichols. During practices, the two started improvising with some very modest, quiet themes. As a joke, they wondered what would happen if they played such quiet music in front of Duluth crowds, which at that point focused around the loud, grunge, "post-punk" sound. Soon, the joke became a serious thought. Sparhawk disbanded Zen Identity, and he and Nichols recruited Sparhawk's wife Mimi Parker to play a very modest drum kit composed of a single cymbal and a single floor tom. She used brushes almost exclusively.
Low's debut album, I Could Live in Hope, was released on Virgin Records' Vernon Yard imprint in 1994. It featured Nichols on bass, though he was replaced by Sally, who joined for the recording of the band's next album Long Division. Long Division and its similar follow-up, 1996's The Curtain Hits the Cast, established the band as critical darlings; extensive touring helped them to develop a highly devoted fan base. "Over the Ocean," a single drawn from The Curtain Hits the Cast, also became something of a hit on college radio.
Low experienced considerable difficulties during their tenure with Vernon Yard, and by the time of their next full-length (1999's Secret Name) they had moved to the influential independent label Kranky. In between, they released several singles and EPs. In 1999, Low joined forces with Dirty Three to record an In The Fishtank session for Konkurrent records. All Music Guide called the six-song disc "some of the best material either unit has produced." Of particular note is the disc's lengthy cover of Neil Young's "Down by the River." 2001 saw the release of Things We Lost in the Fire.
The following year saw the release of the band's final full-length on Kranky, Trust. All three of the band's full-length releases on Kranky featured superstar producers: Secret Name and Things We Lost in the Fire feature the work of "recordist" Steve Albini (best known for producing abrasive noise rock and punk groups), who proved surprisingly sympathetic to capturing the band's strengths; while Trust was recorded with Duluth engineer Eric Swanson and mixed by Tchad Blake.
In April 2003, Peter S. Scholtes of the Twin Cities weekly paper City Pages posted in his weblog that Sally had left Low. The following month, the band posted an update to the news on their website: "We have all had to work through some personal things recently ... After sorting it out, the good news is that Zak is remaining in the band ..." In July 2003, they toured Europe with Radiohead, Sally in tow. Following a successful tour in early 2004 that vividly demonstrated the band's commitment to their fans (Parker was visibly pregnant throughout), the band signaled their intent to continue making music by signing with powerhouse indie label Sub Pop. To fulfill their contract with Kranky, Low released a three-disc rarities compilation on that label in 2004.
Beginning with Secret Name, the band have diversified their sound. The band use subtle electronic music touches to augment their sound, reflective of their tenure with Kranky and their exposure to the Midwest's post-rock scene. Adding a more overt rock element to their aesthetic, the band has used fuzz bass from Things We Lost on the Fire onward, and began using distorted lead guitar on Trust. The band's latest album, The Great Destroyer, nods even further in the direction of rock. Recorded with producer Dave Fridmann and released by Sub Pop in January 2005, The Great Destroyer has received mostly positive reviews; the Village Voice described the record's "comparatively thunderous verve." One notable exception to the critical applause is Pitchfork Media, which rated the album 5.5 out of 10 and panned its lead single "California."
Low cancelled the second leg of their extensive tour in support of The Great Destroyer in late spring of 2005. Sparhawk's informal statement, published on the band's web forum and addressed directly to fans, detailed the personal reasons behind the cancellation. In August 2005, however, Sparhawk announced his return to performance, embarking on a United States tour with fellow slowcore pioneer, former Red House Painters frontman Mark Kozelek. However, in October 2005, Sally announced his resignation. Replacing him is Matt Livingston, a longtime bassist and saxophonist in Duluth's musical scene.
Performance
Low are known for their impressive live performances. Rock club audiences typically watch the band while seated on the floor (due to the difficulty of standing for long periods while listening to such slow and quiet music). During their early career, the band often faced unsympathetic and inattentive audiences in bars and clubs, to which they responded by bucking rock protocol and turning their volume down.
Their shows often feature drastically reinterpreted cover versions of famous songs by the likes of Joy Division and The Smiths, in addition to their own original material. Live, Low shows a sense of humor not necessarily found on their recordings; a tour in early 2004 featured a cover of OutKast's hit song "Hey Ya." At a gig in Los Angeles on Halloween 1998, the band took the stage as a Misfits tribute act, complete with corpse paint and black clothing.
Commercial success
The band's mainstream exposure has been limited: their best-known song is arguably a hymnal version of "The Little Drummer Boy," which was featured in a Gap television ad that depicted a snowball fight in slow-motion to match the song's glacial tempo. A remix of their "Halflight" was featured in the Mothman Prophecies motion picture.
However, because of their minimal overhead expenses (the band makes very little use of professional recording facilities), Low have managed to develop a reasonably comfortable career.
Personal lives
Sparhawk and Parker are married, have two children, and are practicing members of the Mormon faith. (Sparhawk was born into an LDS family in Seattle, and for some time lived in Utah before moving to Minnesota at age nine; he also briefly attended Brigham Young University. Parker is a convert.)
Lyrical references: Christianity and Mormonism
Low are hardly a Christian rock group, however, at least in the usual sense: neither Sally's religious affiliation (or lack thereof) nor Parker and Sparhawk's faith is mentioned in their latest press kit. Low have often toured with other "Christian, not Christian rock" acts such as Pedro the Lion and the Danielson Famile.
However, there are occasional lyrical references (usually subtle and/or indirect) to Parker and Sparhawk's religion. Sometimes these references are traditional Christian themes. The song "If You Were Born Today," on both the live album One More Reason to Forget and on the Christmas album, quietly suggests what might happen if Jesus were born in contemporary times. On Things We Lost in the Fire, the song "Whore" includes Parker's haunting chorus "you will get your reward", while Sparhawk asks "is it so wrong to think there's more?" Disc one of A Lifetime of Temporary Relief includes the song "David & Jude," while disc two includes two versions of "Joan of Arc" and the Spacemen 3 cover "Lord, Can You Hear Me?" Many references draw specifically on themes from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These include "Weight of Water" and "Missouri" on Secret Name, whose title itself refers to an LDS naming ritual; this album also contains the song "Lion/Lamb." The Trust track "The Lamb," at least partially concerns the death of Joseph Smith.
The Christmas album's religious content is generally more direct, including in addition to "If you were born today" an original song about the Three Wise Men's subversion of Herod to protect Jesus ("Long way around the sea"), as well as traditionals ("Silent night," "Little drummer boy," the Elvis song "Blue Christmas") and original secular, seasonal songs ("Just Like Christmas," "Taking down the tree," "One special gift,").
Lyrical references: Duluth, Minnesota, and elsewhere
Low lyrics also subtly and indirectly reference geography. Very often, these geographic references center on their home in Duluth, Minnesota. Sparhawk has said that the song "Sea," from I Could Live in Hope, is about Duluth. The lyrics say, "The sea is a long, long way / from me . . . I'd go there if I had the time / but lying here will do just fine." To any Duluthian, this inevitably summons up Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes, at whose western tip Duluth rests. Lake Superior is not salt water, but it is a very, very large body of water, certainly as large as many bodies of water that are called "seas." In fact, Lake Superior is sometimes called "the Inland Sea." The EP Songs for a Dead Pilot, was reportedly dedicated to a pilot who crashed near Duluth in the late 1990s. On Things We Lost in the Fire, the song "Sunflower" may refer to a notorious murder up the North Shore of Lake Superior some time in the late 70s or early 80s. On Trust, cold Minnesota winters emerge in the lyrics, "when we were young / we wanted to die / but the sound of a drum / and the words of a child / brought different light / now no one can tell / the winter was nice... the ground was so hard / the nights were so long / but we suffered the dark / and we wrote all those songs / still i was a fool / i covered my ears / no i would not face the last snowstorm of the year." (These lyrics also of course indulge both Low's repeating, dark, self-destructive / murderous / suicidal theme as well as their theme about having children.)
Other lyrics have referred elsewhere. Secret Name includes the song "Missouri," which may refer to the LDS community's travels westward. Songs for a Dead Pilot's last track is "Hey Chicago," which says "Hey Chicago, I'm leaving." On Trust, the song "Canada," says "you can't take that stuff to Canada," which inescapably suggests advice to people attempting to take drugs across the border from the U.S. to Canada. (As Minnesota sits along the border of Ontario and Manitoba, this can also be seen as a reference to Minnesota.) Songs on The Great Destroyer frequently reference geography. "California," says "Though it breaks your heart / We had to sell the farm / Back to California where it's warm." This possibly refers to Sparhawk's own mother selling the family farm upon which Sparhawk had grown up (compare the lyrics for "Mom says" on The Curtain Hits the Cast: "mom says / a farm's the best place to call home / but I don't know.") "Broadway (so many people)" refers very specifically to the intersection of Broadway and East 4th Street in New York City: "Last night just north of Houston / Broadway so many people / Through your third story window / I see my favorite record store [most likely Other Music on 4th, a noted independent record store]. At a February 2004 show at "Dante's" in Portland, Ore., Sparhawk told the crowd that the song "Walk into the Sea" was about "a guy who used to live here that we got know pretty well. He's gone now..." in what many fans believe was a reference to Academy Award-nominated singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, a long-time Portland resident. Smith had died just months earlier in October 2003. On the Murderer EP is the song, "From Your Place on Sunset," which refers to many locations in the Los Angeles area.
Side projects
Low owns a record label, Chairkickers' Union, which releases material by other musicians such as Rivulets and Haley Bonar, as well as some of their own material. Sparhawk is notably active in Duluth's small but vibrant independent music scene; he operates a recording studio in the town, in a deconsecrated church that naturally provides the lush reverb characteristic of Low's sound. The Chairkickers label offers another outlet for Duluth musicians, as most groups on the label are from that city, or at least from Minnesota and surrounding areas.
Sally has toured as a bassist with Dirty Three, and Sparhawk has devoted considerable time and energy to his Black Eyed Snakes project, a blues-rock revival band quite far removed from the Low aesthetic. Recently Sparhawk has also been seen with a new side project called The Retribution Gospel Choir. Matt Livingston, who became Low's new bassist in late 2005, played in The Retribution Gospel Choir until early 2008 at which time Steve Garrington became the bassist for both this band and Low. On Retribution's first tour (fall 2005), they played the Low song "From Your Place on Sunset." (Similarly, Low and the Black-Eyed Snakes have played some overlapping songs, such as "Lordy".)
6) Low (White Leaves) is a Japanese artist.
7) Low is a member of CLOSER.
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Low Lyrics
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You let yourself go as tides pull and waters flow
You go where the money goes
I should have expected you to do so
Blowing in as the soft winds bend the weeds
We're breeding the genesis of a familiar breed
Where our aspirations feed on our own greedy needs
After a golden age of a time that's passed
When the golden tap above you begins to rust
You fall out of favour and fade to dust
You've been crying by the stairwell again
Far away from home, maybe you lost a friend
Hard times come and go, now and then
Wash away our tired dreams in the restless sand
You stop repeating the same old lines on a page
Still you can't stop yourself from flying into a rage
Words have lost all meaning when you're trapped in a cage
You think you're at home here but your home's merely a stage
She's an old friend who seldom stays in touch
In the past five years or so, we hardly said much
Then suddenly she appears like a mirage
She expects the old me but I've already changed so much
We may have worked together many times before
But when the earth split from beneath our floor
I didn't know how to behave anymore
I found myself retreating and going out the back door
We may have been friends for a long time
But so many things have changed down along the line
It's so hard to catch up from this far behind
I do apologize for being unkind
Who is here to judge?
Not me anyway
Everyone has the right to survival
These days
So you do your thing
And I'll have my ways
Maybe someday, it'll be okay
It'll be okay
'Cause we'll be rising from the lowest of the lows
You let yourself go from where nothing grows
Where it's so un-natural it's all a pose
Sends a shiver down the spine to your toes
Naked from the head down to your waist
You're drifting along to a better place
Somewhere you can rest and laze with the sunlight
beaming across your face
You've risen now from the lows of that lonely place
In Low's song "Low," the lyrics explore the concept of hitting rock bottom and the process of rising back up to a better place. The opening lines set the scene of a person who has let themselves go and gone to the lowest point imaginable. The tides pull and the waters flow, as the person follows the money wherever it leads them. The emotions of the singer are tied up in frustration and disappointment, as they express that they should have known that this person would end up in this position.
As the song progresses, the singer reflects on the idea of greed and how it feeds on our aspirations. They lament the passing of a golden age where things were simpler and relationships were more genuine. This is all tied up with a sense of displacement, as the singer feels like an outcast and not at home in their current situation. They address an old friend who has come back into their life after years of little contact, and the struggles they face in trying to reconnect with someone who expects them to be the same person they were before.
Despite all this, the song ends on a hopeful note, with the idea that everyone has the right to survival and the hope that things will get better. The singer encourages the person they are addressing to do what they need to do to survive, while they focus on their own journey of self-discovery and growth. The final lines express the idea that they have risen from the lowest point and are moving towards a better place where they can rest and bask in the sunlight.
Overall, the lyrics of "Low" explore themes of disillusionment, personal growth, and the difficulties of navigating friendships that have changed over time. The singer is struggling with their own emotions and sense of displacement, but ultimately holds onto the hope that things will improve and they will rise above their current struggles.
Line by Line Meaning
Going down to the lowest of the lows
Descending to the depths of despair
You let yourself go as tides pull and waters flow
Allowing oneself to be swept away by the forces of life
You go where the money goes
Following the money trail without regard for morality
I should have expected you to do so
Regretting the lack of surprise at someone's unscrupulous behavior
Blowing in as the soft winds bend the weeds
Changes that come slowly and insidiously
We're breeding the genesis of a familiar breed
Creating a society that produces similar types of people with predictable behavior
Where our aspirations feed on our own greedy needs
Society fueled by selfish desires and lacking in empathy
After a golden age of a time that's passed
Nostalgia for a time of prosperity and happiness long gone
You see them dying off, those relationships that won't last
Watching failed relationships fade away
When the golden tap above you begins to rust
Losing one's source of wealth and security
You fall out of favour and fade to dust
Being discarded and forgotten by society
You've been crying by the stairwell again
Feeling sadness and despair in a lonely place
Far away from home, maybe you lost a friend
Being separated from loved ones and feeling loss
Hard times come and go, now and then
Stating the obvious that difficult times are a part of life
Wash away our tired dreams in the restless sand
Allowing reality to wash away unattainable dreams
You stop repeating the same old lines on a page
Breaking free from repetitive patterns in life
Still you can't stop yourself from flying into a rage
Feeling intense anger in response to life's challenges
Words have lost all meaning when you're trapped in a cage
Feeling trapped and hopeless in a situation
You think you're at home here but your home's merely a stage
Realizing that one's comfortable surroundings are temporary and fleeting
She's an old friend who seldom stays in touch
Describing a friend who is not a frequent presence in one's life
In the past five years or so, we hardly said much
Not having meaningful interactions with someone in a long time
Then suddenly she appears like a mirage
Someone from the past suddenly reappearing in one's life
She expects the old me but I've already changed so much
People expecting one to be the same despite personal growth and change
We may have worked together many times before
Describing a past work relationship
But when the earth split from beneath our floor
A significant and unexpected change occurring
I didn't know how to behave anymore
Feeling lost and unsure in a new situation
I found myself retreating and going out the back door
Withdrawing from a situation
We may have been friends for a long time
Describing a long-lasting friendship
But so many things have changed down along the line
The changes that happen in both people and relationships over time
It's so hard to catch up from this far behind
Difficulties in reconnecting with someone after being out of touch for a long time
I do apologize for being unkind
Expressing remorse for past hurtful behavior
Who is here to judge?
Asking a rhetorical question about the nature of judgment
Not me anyway
Asserting that the artist does not feel entitled to pass judgment on others
Everyone has the right to survival
Affirming the basic human right to exist
These days
Acknowledging the challenges of the present time
So you do your thing
Encouraging individuality and personal choice
And I'll have my ways
Asserting personal autonomy
Maybe someday, it'll be okay
Expressing hope for the future
It'll be okay
Repeating the sentiment of hopefulness
'Cause we'll be rising from the lowest of the lows
Optimism for overcoming hardship and setback
You let yourself go from where nothing grows
Allowing oneself to be released from a stagnant environment
Where it's so un-natural it's all a pose
Describing a disingenuous and uncomfortable environment
Sends a shiver down the spine to your toes
Producing a visceral emotional response
Naked from the head down to your waist
Feeling vulnerable and exposed
You're drifting along to a better place
Moving towards a better situation
Somewhere you can rest and laze with the sunlight
Describing a peaceful and idyllic setting
beaming across your face
The calming and comforting nature of sunlight
You've risen now from the lows of that lonely place
Expressing hope and triumph over difficult circumstances
Lyrics © DistroKid
Written by: Leslie Low
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[Coro: Gabito Ballesteros]
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Huele a fresita Versace
Champú Lady Gaga, Dom Péri que no es sedal
Los delta siempre nos cuidan
[Verso 1: Natanael Cano]
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Los morros pura mota cherry
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[Refrán: Gabito Ballesteros & Natanael Cano ]
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[Verso 2: Gabito Ballesteros]
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Al boss Julio lo cuidan sus plebes
03 las fresas, puro Scary Movie
No me pueden tocar porque ya subí
[Coro: Natanael Cano]
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Huele a fresita Versace
Champú Lady Gaga, Dom Péri que no es sedal
Los delta siempre nos cuidan
La fresada pa' la albercada
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