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felt that "its heavy-lidded drama creeps by in all-enveloping slow motion" and called it "the best record made for those dreary, nothing's-going-on-and-I-want-to-crawl-into-a-hole afternoons since
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at number 49 on its 1999 list of the best albums of the 1990s. The same year, critic Ned Raggett ranked it at number 37 on his list of "The Top 136 or So Albums of the Nineties" for
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A 29 second excerpt from "Lullaby". This song became one of Low's most famous tracks. The song, alongside the rest of
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had reigning popularity, Low "eschewed conventional songwriting in favour of mood and movement." Influenced by
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described as "stretch a simple melody into a 10-minute meditation that gently pulls out of linear time".
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Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996
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Featuring an "unprecedent pace in the then-flowering underground,"
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A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides and Rarities
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received generally positive reviews from contemporary
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If You Were Born Today (Song for Little Baby Jesus)
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Index


Studio album
Low
Hope Township, New Jersey
Genre
Slowcore
dream pop
Label
Vernon Yard
Producer
Mark Kramer
Low
Long Division
studio album
indie rock
Low
Vernon Yard Recordings
"Lullaby"
slowcore
Pitchfork
media help
alternative rock
grunge
Brian Eno
Joy Division
underground
Mark Kramer
AllMusic
Chicago Tribune
NME

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