My shadow is a Monday

Went to see Low perform last night at Richard's.



Lavender Diamond opened the show. They had a nice mellow sound. In between songs, singer Becky Stark would crack jokes to the audience. It took the crowd a little while to warm up to her. During their 45min performance, the guitarist broke two strings and didn't have a spare D string, so he played the rest of the set with 5 strings. The keyboardist looked pretty old and kinda resembled my Grade 12 Geography teacher. That class was fun until we stopped coloring maps. Then it was all downhill from there.

Low took the stage and played a dreamy set. The Minnesota trio is often referred to as a slowcore band because of their minimalist tempos. People attending their past shows have been known to sit on the floor, as it can get hard to stand while listening to such slow and quiet music for a long duration. In fact, when I saw them last year with Pedro The Lion, I almost fell asleep while standing.



Vocalist and guitarist Alan Sparhawk had this crazy feedback going with his single coil Danelectro guitar. It was neat as he would crank the reverb near the end of songs before everything fell silent. He also had an interesting choice of pedals.



This performance featured new bassist Matt Livingston, who replaced longtime band member Zak Sally late last year.



Some highlights of the 1hr 20min set included strong versions of Silver Rider and Lazy. During the encore, Alan took some requests including Dinosaur Act.