Low: The Duluth, Minn., trio returns with its first album in four years, a typically lovely yet somehow disturbing exercise in restraint, “C’mon” (Sub Pop), 9 p.m. Thursday at Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Av., $15 ($18 at door); lincolnhallchicago.com.
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Low’s Alan Sparhawk vividly remembers the day last summer he got the news that Robert Plant was going to record two Low songs – “Silver Rider” and “Monkey” -- on his 2010 studio album, “Band of Joy.”
“It was a surprise, a big surprise” he says. “I mean, there are a few singers like Plant, Streisand – singers who are the ultimate when you think about someone singing one of your songs. The longer I do this, the more I have to admit to myself that I write songs, the more I have to wonder if any of them are any good. So to get something like this puts a little smile on my ego.”
The erstwhile "golden god" of '70s hard rock ended up getting a Grammy nomination for “Silver Rider.” It was quite possibly the most high-profile, mainstream recognition the trio from Duluth, Minn., has ever received. For Low fans, it was long overdue.
Sparhawk; his wife, Mimi Parker; and a rotating cast of bass players, most recently Steve Garrington, have kept a pretty low profile over two decades, despite releasing enough stellar albums to fill their own rarefied niche: the slowest, quietest, most beautiful -- and beautifully disturbing -- band on earth.
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