Experiment in misery... (Low - David Bowie)

Member Name: Rumblefish

Product:	Low - David Bowie
Date:	04/07/00 (107 review reads)
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Advantages: 'Sound and Vision', very atmospheric

Disadvantages: Bleak, occasionally tedious

Plenty of people rate this as DB's best album; it's certainly his most avant-garde. The first of his collaborations with Brian Eno, who would go on to produce more commericial material with U2, it is an album of bleak, barren ambience (half the tracks are instrumentals) and defiant experimentation. There is melody, even catchiness, in tracks like 'Speed of Life' and 'Sound and Vision', but much of the album is so slow, grim, and frankly over-produced as to be almost unlistenable. Overrated then, but still an experience...if not an always pleasant one.

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