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You can tell what’s coming from the first chord: fat, reverb-y, sustaining, setting the tone for an album full of distorted, feedbacky, bastardised Southern country rock. The Low Lows are a New York band (formerly Parker and Lily) transplanted to Athens, Georgia and taking their Velvet Underground and Galaxie 500 influences with them. Pedal steel underpins the country influence (most prominent on ‘Five Ways I Didn’t Die’) but the flourishes of brass that cut through the noise-rock take it in more urban directions. The psychedelic sheets of noise on the excellent ‘Elizabeth Pier’ might be the Brian Jonestown Massacre reborn while the slow and layered drones of ‘Modern Love’ are so hypnotic that they only gradually remind you that this was once a Yeah Yeah Yeahs song. The weight of noise creates a narcotic oppression if taken in excess and the keening Southern tones of Parker Noon can sound strangely affected, like a Englishman singing like a Georgian, but at its best, as on ‘Sparrows’, the tension between urban noise, country rawness and gospel faith has an irresistibly intense power that sucks you in.
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