Minnesota indie vets Low released their outstanding new album Double Negative last month. Today, in honor of Halloween, the trio have shared a slightly eerie video for Double Negative brooder “Always Trying To Work It Out.” The clip, directed by Philip Harder and Low’s Alan Sparhawk, sees Sparhawk navigate a grocery store filled with people wearing the same bizarre mask.
In a statement on the video, the band says: “We present our slightly Halloween-themed video for 'Always Trying to Work It Out.' In which… friends and family star in a stroll through the grocery store; familiar fragments from memory appear; masks are filtering light. Thank you National Sawdust, light tech Shane Donohue, and the Food Co-op in Duluth. It’s dedicated to our city of Duluth.”
Double Negative is Low’s twelfth studio album and follows 2015’s Ones and Sixes. Below, watch the video for “Always Trying To Work It Out” as well as Low’s 2012 performance on KEXP from the Bumbershoot Music Lounge.
Discussing the band’s 11th album Double Negative, chasing the feeling of starkness, and continuing to experiment after 25 years as a band.
While most of the well-known Minnesota bands hail from Minneapolis, out on the shores of beautiful Lake Superior is the city of Duluth, hometown to the band Low. In the early '90s, the local sound was loud, abrasive, and grunge-inspired. Someone made the joke, what if a band were to play quiet musi…
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