David Bowie - Low

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Album Details

Title: Low
Artist: David Bowie
Release Date: 1/1977
Re-Released On: 12/15/2007
Label: Virgin, Toshiba EMI, Virgin Records, EMI Music Distribution
Duration: 50:08
Album Type(s): lyrics/libretto, Enhanced CD-ROM
UPCs: 4988006832152, 4988006850590, 724352190706, 014431014222, 014431014246, 014431814228, 0724352190751, 077779771929, 114431014243, 724352190751, 498800683215
Genre: Rock
Styles: Contemporary Pop/Rock, Experimental, Proto-Punk, Experimental Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Album Rock, Dance-Rock, Art Rock
Moods: Brooding, Clinical, Eccentric, Eerie, Stylish, Bravado, Cerebral, Complex, Detached, Dramatic, Elegant, Enigmatic, Exciting, Literate, Lush, Nocturnal, Playful, Provocative, Quirky, Rebellious, Sophisticated, Swaggering, Tense/Anxious, Theatrical, Urgent, Wry, Campy, Hypnotic, Intense, Ironic, Sexy, Yearning, Outrageous, Austere, Elaborate, Refined/Mannered
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 7
Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

Track Listings

  1. Speed of Life
  2. Breaking Glass
  3. What in the World
  4. Sound and Vision
  5. Always Crashing in the Same Car
  6. Be My Wife
  7. A New Career in a New Town
  8. Warszawa
  9. Art Decade
  10. Weeping Wall
  11. Subterraneans

Additional Releases

YearTypeLabelCatalog #
2007CDToshiba EMI70150
2007CDToshiba EMI53520
1999CDVirgin21907
1999CDVirgin Records21907
1991CDEMI Music Distribution1027

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Album Review

Following through with the avant-garde inclinations of Station to Station, yet explicitly breaking with David Bowie's past, Low is a dense, challenging album that confirmed his place at rock's cutting edge. Driven by dissonant synthesizers and electronics, Low is divided between brief, angular songs and atmospheric instrumentals. Throughout the record's first half, the guitars are jagged and the synthesizers drone with a menacing robotic pulse, while Bowie's vocals are unnaturally layered and overdubbed. During the instrumental half, the electronics turn cool, which is a relief after the intensity of the preceding avant pop. Half the credit for Low's success goes to Brian Eno, who explored similar ambient territory on his own releases. Eno functioned as a conduit for Bowie's ideas, and in turn Bowie made the experimentalism of not only Eno but of the German synth group Kraftwerk and the post-punk group Wire respectable, if not quite mainstream. Though a handful of the vocal pieces on Low are accessible -- "Sound and Vision" has a shimmering guitar hook, and "Be My Wife" subverts soul structure in a surprisingly catchy fashion -- the record is defiantly experimental and dense with detail, providing a new direction for the avant-garde in rock & roll. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Credits

NameCredits
Brian EnoChamberlin, Mixing, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Multi Instruments, Vocals, Moog Synthesizer, Engineer, Mini Moog, Synthesizer
Carlos AlomarGuitar, Guitar (Rhythm)
Christian SimonpietriPhotography
Clive AndersonPhotography
David BowieHarmonica, Tape, Various, Saxophone, Brass Synth, Producer, Guitar, Piano, Strings, Arp, Horn, Percussion, Xylophone, Vocals, Keyboards, Pump Bass, Chamberlin, Bass, Vibraphone, Cello, Mixing
David RichardsMixing
Dennis DavisPercussion
Dr. Toby MountainMastering
Eduard MeyerCello
Eduard MeyermCello
George MurrayGuitar (Bass), Bass
Iggy PopVocals, Organ, Piano, Vocals (Background)
Jonathan WynerAssistant Engineer
Kevin CannDesign
Mary HopkinVocals
Mary ViscontiVocals, Vocals (Background)
Nigel ReeveRemastering
Peter HimmelmanPiano, Arp
Peter MewRemastering
Ricky GardinerGuitar (Rhythm), Guitar
Ricky MurrayBass
Roy YoungOrgan, Piano, Piano, Farfisa Organ
Steve ShapiroPhotography
Tony ViscontiProducer
WallEngineer