#2958 Low - Things We Lost in the Fire

A quiet little listen that rewards you for letting it seep into your bones, a slow sleep by radon or lead. Post-rock that remembers home fondly.

A blanket mix, woven loose and close, like on, say, Closer, where the strings and bass and voices all share a space, slip through eachother, defying the notion of parts, not from bad mixing or production tricks, but from a natural inclination to interleave sounds, to let their legs get locked together in flannel sheets on fall mornings. Every brushy snare as close as the vocals, no baseline too shy about draping its arm into your space.

And because I'm a huge album structure nerdburger, I love the way the spare emotional core comes right at track 7, between 6 songs on either side, and is called Embrace. Cmon. The leadin to the surreal, strangely uplifting Whore is just perfect, the whole second side like a slowly rising sun 4/5