I like them - I think both Brad and Nathan are fans as well.
Anyway, figured I share this article -
http://www.stateofmindmusic.com/entry/5 ... -Evolves-/
anyone dig The Low Anthem?
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yeah, they are definitely cool cats. i got to know both the band and their music pretty well when I did the Northeast SMMD tour last April. Ran into both Ben and Jocie at the Paradise show last week too.
As far as their music goes, the slow stuff breaks my heart. just beautiful and I love the instrumentation. However on OMGCD they wrote a couple upbeat barroom bluesy rock tracks ("Horizon is a Beltway", "Home I'll never be") which i can't get into at all. That said, they are from Providence, my current city, and are the front runners in the brilliant folk scene we got brewing here. So I obviously wish them the very best....
As far as their music goes, the slow stuff breaks my heart. just beautiful and I love the instrumentation. However on OMGCD they wrote a couple upbeat barroom bluesy rock tracks ("Horizon is a Beltway", "Home I'll never be") which i can't get into at all. That said, they are from Providence, my current city, and are the front runners in the brilliant folk scene we got brewing here. So I obviously wish them the very best....
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istened to the two shows i could find of theirs on archive... very interesting stuff! powerful harmonies, interesting intrumentation (how many players are there, anyways?). some tunes are reminiscent of tom waits, others are like the pogues. any more out there? good stuff...
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As Bear has hinted, I am a Low Anthem fan. They get me with their simplicity and tenderness, their honesty and presence, their sensitivity and their neighborliness. They are comedians, individuals, diligent workers, whiskey drinkers, and fine human beings. And at least one of them makes an epic chicken with capers.
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OMGCD is a great record. As someone else mentioned, I can do without the Tom-Waits-ish rockers, but the rest of the stuff is great - some of it really gorgeous and impressive.
The lyrics and vocal performance on the song "Charlie Darwin" make it an especially beautiful piece, to me anyway:
Charlie Darwin - by The Low Anthem (listen here: http://www.myspace.com/lowanthem)
Set the sails I feel the winds a’stirring
Toward the bright horizon set the way
Cast your wreckless dreams upon our Mayflower
Haven from the world and her decay
And who could heed the words of Charlie Darwin
Fighting for a system built to fail
Spooning water from their broken vessels
As far as I can see there is no land
Oh my god, the waters all around us
Oh my god, it’s all around
And who could heed the words of Charlie Darwin
The lords of war just profit from decay
And trade their children’s promise for the jingle
The way we trade our hard earned time for pay
Oh my god, the waters cold and shapeless
Oh my god, it’s all around
Oh my god, life is cold and formless
Oh my god, it’s all around
The lyrics and vocal performance on the song "Charlie Darwin" make it an especially beautiful piece, to me anyway:
Charlie Darwin - by The Low Anthem (listen here: http://www.myspace.com/lowanthem)
Set the sails I feel the winds a’stirring
Toward the bright horizon set the way
Cast your wreckless dreams upon our Mayflower
Haven from the world and her decay
And who could heed the words of Charlie Darwin
Fighting for a system built to fail
Spooning water from their broken vessels
As far as I can see there is no land
Oh my god, the waters all around us
Oh my god, it’s all around
And who could heed the words of Charlie Darwin
The lords of war just profit from decay
And trade their children’s promise for the jingle
The way we trade our hard earned time for pay
Oh my god, the waters cold and shapeless
Oh my god, it’s all around
Oh my god, life is cold and formless
Oh my god, it’s all around