Low - What Part of Me

Across eleven albums and twenty two years as a group, Low have continually fed off a template of heart-wrenching emotion, delivered across sparse instrumentation and souring vocal harmonies. With new record ‘Ones and Sixes’, and this new single ‘What Part of Me’, the trio flourish once more in embodying affecting emotion in a pop structure.

Returning to drum machines, ‘What Part of Me’ pulses along gently, Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Park delivering no-nonsense lyricism through grand vocal scales, filling the space left by the minimal use of rhythm. Bright, fuzzy chords add a brighter element to a track led by apprehension and torment, allowing the duo’s vocal performances to take central lead.

Stifled by anxiety, Low define the damaging feeling of silence between loved ones, the fearful notion that something is being hidden, and the bare vulnerability experienced when you give yourself to the person you live for; “It’s getting hard to believe it out here, it’s a hundred degrees out here”. It’s in their ability to embody these emotions that permits the trio to prosper. With ‘What Part of Me’, Low maintain their grasp of emotion and feed it through their unequivocal nature. ‘What Part Of Me’ is a study of the human condition in it’s simplest, most overwhelming form.