What is the best LOW album/release? (all poll options included this time)

Man. This is just as impossible as last time.

You're making me listen to all of this AGAIN (thanks, though, it's been a month or two) and I already know I won't be able to choose. :-)

Yeah I understand, I've got it narrowed down in my head to like... 5-6 short-listed contenders?

It's going to be one of the albums, imho.

'Secret Name' or 'Things We Lost In The Fire'.

I used to jump no question to the latter, but the former has been really dawning on me this year.

I almost voted for Things We Lost In The Fire purely as a reflex, but then paused and looked through the list... I probably play Christmas the most, and playing it signifies the start of the Christmas period for me, so maybe that?

things we lost in the fire vs. drums+guns for me

one of my favorite bands of all time and i've only ever heard 4 records, so much more left to go

drums 'n guns

Curtain, same as last time.

I've put everything on my mp3 player (including all those gorgeous Low shows on archive.org) to listen at work, but now I find myself listening to Darkspace instead. Not quite the same thing. :-)

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Trust.

I hate voting against all the other albums, but ultimately, I picked D&G.

Impossible: I Could Live in Hope, Secret Name, Things We Lost, Great Destroyer, Drums & Guns. I vote for those 5. Last time this was polled I voted for Things We Lost since that was the first one I got into. Tonight Great Destroyer gets the nod.

Fire

Great Destroyer

one of the last two albums -- probably drums and guns.

I went with 'Things We Lost In The Fire'.

Quite surprised at the apparent preferences for the more recent outings.

feel pretty stubborn picking curtain, because it's neither as consistent nor as much of an album as some of the others, imo. but at the same time it better defines what i like about them, and seems strikingly, archetypally slow and low-ish and heavenly. so it wins out.

i could pick trust, too, maybe protectively because it seems to have a bad rep; it's so muscular and cold and spooky.

I agree on 'Curtain', its my choice too. It just sums up everything great about early Low for me.

Also suprised at all the love for the recent releases. Mind you, I thought that Drums and Guns was excellent. The Great Destroyer never did much for me though.

It's not that I think that the newer ones are bad, a long long way from it, it's just that the other stuff is so monumentally, astoundingly great that, in my mind, they simply do not compare.

doesn't seem right to pit albums against singles and comps like this. I voted curtain. could have been that box set though.

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I've always suspected that most people's favorite Low album is also their first Low album.

forgot what i voted for, would have been trust or curtain

happy that dead pilot got no votes. that album put me off low for years

Understandable but still a shame that Temporary Relief didn't get any votes. It has some tremendous, irreplaceable tracks but it's not designed to win votes in a poll like this.

This seems about right. My personal preference would swap Curtain and Hope, I've never really paid much attention to the former -- but given these results perhaps I should.

hope or possibly curtain for me. i actually find it hard to enjoy anything the band released this last decade. particularly the last couple.