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"'Poetic and not very sensible' is the best description of
Ben Lee I've heard in a long time," declares Ben Lee himself
in a rather congratulatory tone. I was actually referring
to the track-by-track descriptions he's written for his new
album, 'Awake Is The New Sleep'. But Lee himself seems to
think it befits a larger part of his character. "You just
described me. You don't even need to interview me! You got
me, you got it down..."
For
most of Low's career they've been easily - and not unreasonably
- characterised as the slowest and saddest of all bands (Sunflowers,
which opens 'Things We Lost In The Fire', still damn near
kills me every time I hear it), but early word on 'The Great
Destroyer' was that it was their Rock album. And indeed it
is, but before purists sink into a morass of alterna-slowcore
despair they should note that it's "rock" only in relation
to their previous records: there's still a whole lot of subtlety
and gentle beauty here...