New German import vinyl repress with thick stock frame-ready cover and custom insert sleeve with song credits.
Bowie classic recorded in Berlin while overlooking the Wall that still separated East from West. See below for track-list and recording notes.
See our listings for the other two LPs (Heroes & Lodger) that completed the Berlin trilogy...
Tracklist
| A1 | Speed Of Life | 2:46 |
| A2 | Breaking Glass | 1:52 |
| A3 | What In The World | 2:23 |
| A4 | Sound And Vision | 3:05 |
| A5 | Always Crashing In The Same Car | 3:33 |
| A6 | Be My Wife | 2:58 |
| A7 | A New Career In A New Town | 2:53 |
| B1 | Warzawa | 6:23 |
| B2 | Art Decade | 3:46 |
| B3 | Weeping Wall | 3:28 |
| B4 | Subterraneans | 5:39 |
Low Notes:
The album was co-produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti with contributions from Brian Eno,] As a recovering cocaine addict, Bowie's songwriting on Low dealt with difficult issues: "There's oodles of pain in the Low album. That was my first attempt to kick cocaine, so that was an awful lot of pain. And I moved to Berlin to do it. I moved out of the coke centre of the world [i.e., Los Angeles, where Station to Station was recorded] into the smack centre of the world. Thankfully, I didn't have a feeling for smack, so it wasn't a threat". Visconti contended that the title was partly a reference to Bowie's "low" moods during the album's writing and recording.[7]
Although the music was influenced by German bands such as Kraftwerk and Neu, Low has been acclaimed for its originality and is considered ahead of its time, not least for its cavernous treated drum sound created by producer Visconti using an Everntide Harmonizer. On the release of Low, Visconti received phone calls from other producers asking how he had made this unique sound, but would not give up the information, instead asking each producer how they thought it had been done. In 2004, Bjorn Randolph of Sylus Magazine said that "had the album been released twenty years later, this would have been called "post-rock".
