Low
Great American Music Hall
November 13, 2002

Review by Jake Thomas

Ah, Low, how beautiful your voices are. They mesmerize me. On paper, I don't think I would enjoy a Low show, given how mellow they are. But something about them manages to keep me rapt for the duration of their performance. It is my contention that Mimi Parker's voice is possibly the best female voice in rock music today, at least as far as I'm concerned.

They played a wide array of songs, ans many that the audience yelled out to hear. My two favorites were played, 'Over the Ocean' and 'The Plan', as well as 'Dinosaur Act', one of their christmas songs, and a whole slew of others. Possibly the best song of the night was a Pink Floyd cover (I forget the name of the song, I'm horrible with song names), which sounded very much like a Low song while still retaining the overall feel of the original. I love it when they cover songs - their version of The BeeGee's 'I Started a Joke' is one of my favorite songs that they play.

All told, a really amazing show that will probably make my top ten at the end of the year. The only thing that could have made it better would have been to have The Danielson Famile open for them again like last year. I'm still kicking myself for only going to one of those shows.

And for the record, although I didn't see them myself, everyone told me that the opening band Six Organs of Admittance was really good. Just thought I would mention that. They're local I think and seem to play around fairly often, so keep an eye out.

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Read our previous Low review:
April 18, 2001 @ Great American Music Hall