Low - The Curtain Hits the Cast (1996)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:
Low - Songs for a Dead Pilot (1997)
Low - Murderer EP (2003)

My favorite record by early-20s-me's favorite band. The Curtain Hits the Cast represents the end of the first era of Low -- marked by uniformly sparse, slow tunes -- after which they'd start fleshing things out instrumentally and, eventually, writing pop-like songs now and then. Thus, the only major difference between this and their first two records is that practically every song on here is among the best they've written. But the less I write about this record, the better, as I'm just gonna heap praise on it until it can't possibly live up to your expectations.

Track listing:
1. Anon
2. The Plan
3. Over the Ocean
4. Mom Says
5. Coattails
6. Standyby
7. Laugh
8. Lust
9. Stars Gone Out
10. Same
11. Do You Know How to Waltz?
12. Dark

One more dance before they take away the light
One more spin around the line
One more step and then we'll turn and face the debt
One more reason to forget

You should also listen to:

The Black Heart Procession -
1 (1998)

Duster -
1975 (1999)