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The Minnesotan trio Low have long been referred to as pioneers of ‘slowcore’, a glacially indolent branch of indie rock, but in truth they’ve grown far beyond that mis-applied tag. A back catalogue as varied as theirs demonstrates it easily. Their last few albums particularly, from the apocalyptically dark Trust from 2002 to 2007’s electronically savage and deceptively poppy Drums and Guns, via 2005’s rocktageous The Great Destroyer, have shown that their sense of style has been governed more by melody, harmony and lyrical themes than simply by meandering tempi. It would be difficult to predict in which direction they...

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