Warning in advance: there is nothing wrong with your CD player, this is how it should be. Low, which has been making school with pastoral beautiful music since 1993, takes a completely different approach on his twelfth album. The electronic influences that cautiously resonated on predecessor have now gained the upper hand. In opener Quorum, they even completely supplanted the heavenly harmony of
… the Mormon couple Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. In other songs you can hardly hear the melody seep through producer BJ Burton's jackhammer sound. And only with Dancing And Fire do we get a real, 'old-fashioned' Low song. Double Negative is thus reminiscent of the supposed electronic 'masterpieces' of and . Look, I understand that after 25 years you want something different. But what we hear here is a combination of mostly mediocre songs and an unpleasant sound. And then minus times minus is unfortunately not a plus here. (RME)more
