HEY WHAT

This album has been added to 4 private lists and 5 public lists:

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  2021

  James

  HEY WHAT transforms distortion into emotional atmosphere rather than simple aggression. BJ Burton’s blown-out production fractures the songs constantly, but Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker’s harmonies remain startlingly human inside the digital wreckage. Tracks like “Days Like These” and “White Horses” feel simultaneously comforting and apocalyptic. The album pushes experimental production techniques toward spiritual and emotional ends instead of novelty. There’s immense beauty buried inside the noise. Few late-career records by any band feel this adventurous or necessary.

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  Best Albums Of 2021

  stumpnugget

  One of the best albums of the year is Low’s Hey What. As I said in an earlier email, I was lukewarm on it until Hunter told me to give it another chance and it honestly blew me away when I returned to it. It’s just unreal that this band is still pushing boundaries at this stage of their career. This album is both beautiful and jarring. It's a total original too, which is rare.

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  Desert Island 10 🏝️

  Jason Powers
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  🏆 2021: Top Ten Albums

  humdrum
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  Best of 2021

  Jeff Erpelding