Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Low & Spring Heel Jack - Bombscare EP (2000)


Related:
Spring Heel Jack - There Are Strings (1995)
Low - The Curtain Hits the Cast (1996)
Low - Songs for a Dead Pilot (1997)
Low - Murderer EP (2003)
Alan Sparhawk - Solo Guitar (2006)

As many of you know, Low put out my favorite album of 2018. It's a thing of harsh, damaged beauty, and I really can't recommend it enough. And this 4-song EP, a collaboration with experimental electronic duo Spring Heel Jack, is the closest antecedent to it in their discography. While other Low releases have featured electronic-laced production -- Drums and Guns and Ones and Sixes come to mind -- here, as on Double Negative, the electronic elements sound like they were part of the writing process from the jump. It's also a really great and slept-on little EP, so jump up on it.

Track listing:
1. Bombscare
2. Hand So Small
3. So Easy (So Far)
4. Way Behind

This time
Your lips won't be afraid
This time
Your hand won't be betrayed


You should also hear:
Bowery Electric -
Beat (1996)
Jessica Bailiff -
Hour of the Trace (1999)

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