David Bowie - Low - Reviews - Album of The Year
David Bowie - Low
Critic Score
Based on 6 reviews
1977 Ratings: #11 / 143
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1977 Rank: #2All Time: #132
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Pitchfork
The album's first side is a beautiful futurist ruin, littered with holes left purposefully unfixed, while the blank, instrumental second side feels like a calculated attempt to kill the author.
100
AllMusic

Low is a dense, challenging album that confirmed his place at rock's cutting edge. Driven by dissonant synthesizers and electronics, Low is divided between brief, angular songs and atmospheric instrumentals.

100
Rolling Stone

Low flows together into a lyrical, hallucinatory, miraculously beautiful whole, the music of an overstimulated mind in an exhausted body, as rock's prettiest sex vampire sashays through some serious emotional wreckage.

100
Q Magazine
An album of mournfully sincere synthesizer music.
90
NME
The ensuing 'Low' advocates the merging of man and machine, and then depicts the resulting sense of loss.
80
SPIN
Bowie furthers his interest in robot sex, woozy ambience, and electro-rock dabbling.
KIDWITHGUNs
97

tHiS iS sOmE gOoD eXpErImEnTaL mUsIc

I'm actually speechless. I'm stunned because this album just flirted with my ears, and managed to take them on a romantic date.

Then this album took my ears... AND PROCEEDED TO FUCK THEM.

now im pregnant wtf

amw100
96

*listens to first half*: oh ok so this is what they were talking about
*listens to second half*: OH OK SO THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT

You gotta appreciate the innovation of this album... If this was released today it would still be ahead of it's time. I love how energetic and fun this album is at first only to slowly turn into this beautiful ambient Ballad towards the end, Warszawa is an impeccable artistic statement that shaped the rest of this album and pretty much the rest of his ... read more

barcooper
90

Fine Bowie, I guess I can be your wifey... :)

You know what is so great about David Bowie? It doesn't matter what album you pick up from his discography, You will always find something new and refreshing. He kept reinventing himself with every single project, And his love and passion for music is what made him such a compelling and intriguing artist.

Many consider this album to be Bowie's experimental opus. Hell, Some even consider this project to be his best album. While I don't think it's ... read more

SpaghettiNipple
90

Bowie does ambiance, but before that he is a little funky: The Album

100

a spaceship

87

On this album, David Bowie started discovering a new sound. And I think this new sound is really interesting.

Track Ranking:
#1: Subterraneans [9.1/10]
#2: Warszawa [9/10]
#3: Sound and Vision [8.7/10]
#4: Art Decade [8.6/10]
#5: A New Career in a New Town [8.6/10]
#6: Be My Wife [8.6/10]
#7: Always Crashing in the Same Car [8.4/10]
#8: Speed of Life [8.4/10]
#9: What in the World [8.4/10]
#10: Weeping Wall [8.2/10]
#11: Breaking Glass [8.1/10]

Overall Score: light/decent 9/10

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Added on: February 4, 2013