Mdou Moctar first riveted listeners as a wedding performer in his home country of Niger his live recordings circulated over shared SIM cards. It is a beautiful, adventurous album from a band who is letting their music fall into disorder and who, in doing so, have never sounded more in control. But with producer BJ Burton, Sparhawk and Parker interrupt and distort themselves, filtering their stark, psalm-like compositions through the kind of processing that makes a guitar solo squeal into feedback, or the sound from your speakers clip into static. In fact, most of the songs tease that kind of delivery: Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker’s voices arrive in unison like folk singers, stripped of effects and clear in the mix, every word audible and sung in simple, hummable melodies. It is easy to imagine any of these 10 warped, noisy pieces of music in stripped-down arrangements. Nearly 30 years into their career, Low have moved beyond simply writing great songs: They are now focused on the way those songs travel from the speakers to our ears: a strange, circuitous journey that makes HEY WHAT feel like genuinely new territory. Within Shaw is a voice of a generation distilling how it feels to be alive right now: “Do everything and feel nothing.” –Simon Reynolds
It’s no coincidence that the most exciting rock record in years is about the inability to feel excitement. There’s a personal dimension to the inner emptiness (a sapping break-up), but because New Long Leg’s release coincided with the depressive pall that swept over the world thanks to lockdown, Shaw’s interiority synced up perfectly with exterior conditions. The lyrics infest your brain with quotables that reverberate for days, but more than the words it’s Shaw’s intonation that’s so funny and so heartbreaking: the grudging cadences, the way she can inject an unreadable alloy of earnestness and irony into an inanity like “I can rebuild.” The self-portrait painted here is of a burned-out shell drifting numbly through a life that senselessly accumulates irritations, humiliations, discomforts, chores, and interpersonal skirmishes, offset by the tiny comforts of Twix bars and artisanal treats. This album is not the type to be nominated for a Grammy, but it really ought to get Emmys for writing and acting.
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^ a b c d Tracks and remixes later made unavailable from Walker's official YouTube channel.One way to hear New Long Leg is as a cringe-tinged dramedy-like Fleabag or Girls-with Florence Shaw as the performer who knows exactly how to deliver her own script.^ a b c Walker was after the release of "Alan Walker Remix" credited as featured artist, after Sofia Carson selected his remix to be the main single of "Back to Beautiful".^ "Paradise" did not enter the Swedish Singellista Chart, but peaked at number six on the Swedish Heatseeker Chart.^ "Fake a Smile" did not enter the Netherlands' Single Top 100 but peaked on the Netherlands' Single Tip Chart at number 28.^ "Live Fast" did not enter the Swedish Singellista Chart, but peaked at number 11 on the Swedish Heatseeker Chart.
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