Audio CD review:
David Bowie - Low

David Bowie - Low

Band: David Bowie Title: Low Rating: Release Date: 20 August, 1991 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Speed Of Life 2: Breaking Glass 3: What In The World 4: Sound And Vision 5: Always Crashing In The Same Car 6: Be My Wife 7: A New Career In A New Town 8: Warszawa 9: Art Decade 10: Weeping Wall 11: Subterraneans 12: Some Are 13: All Saints 14: Sound And Vision

Editoral Review Treated instruments are claustrophobically crowded together, and Bowie's voice leaps in and out of the mix seemingly at will. Always up for messing with the formal expectations of rock, Bowie teamed up with Brian Eno for three frustrating but compelling albums, starting with Low. Where it seems like it might show up, it's replaced by wailing synths or nothing at all, and it vanishes altogether from most of the second half-- a series of long, menacing, barely mobile synth explorations. To prove that they could make pop out of these herky-jerky mix tricks, they pull off "Sound And Vision" in the middle of the disc, but the essence of Low is that the "star" is either absent or alarmingly in your face. --Douglas Wolk .. You can see a complete list of all David Bowie discography, or go back to the David Bowie tabs