The Low Lows July 9, 2009

The Low Lows: Athens GA trio founded in 2005 by P. L. Noon, former singer for NYC band Parker & Lily. The Low Low's live show is a study in extremes. Stark southern sweetness gives way unexpectedly to great storms of guitar noise, bright walls of country narcosis crumble into climactic, stomping feedback and distortion. Pure melodic love-songs abound, made all the sweeter by virtue of being hemmend in by such a stormy darkness. The sonic safety net provided by bass and keyboards having been eliminated, what remains are brutally sparse Palace-isms on the one hand and on the other the sweepingly noise anthemic styles of My Morning Jacket and Galaxie 500.