Low - David Bowie Reviews

Let me begin with an admission. I?ve had Low for some time now ? perhaps two years ? and for the longest time I listened to it in pieces, mostly for the first half of the album. I loved Speed of Life and Sound and Vision; but I never really quite managed to get myself to listen to the entire album. I felt a little frustrated by Low in some ...  Read the complete review

Fantastic Facts for anoraks everywhere 1: Elvis Costello producer and Dave Edmunds sidekick Nick Lowe released and EP called Bowi to repay what he tried to pass off as a favour from one of the world's biggest stars. For Breaking Glass, we were repaid with I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass Trivia is everything and substance is ...  Read the complete review

Low is often regarded as the first of Bowie's Berlin albums, in fact the record was actually written and concieved in France. True it is written at the time the young Bowie was experimenting with drugs to a large extent, more importantly it was a time when his personal life was under going a period of intense stress. His marriage was ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review