David Bowie Low Vinyl Review

And this tony visconti remastered reissue sounds better than the original.

David bowie low vinyl review.

Low was a 1977 breakthrough album by david bowie which contained avant garde tracks rich with experimental synthesizers and unique compositional approaches the album was co produced by bowie and tony visconti and is considered the first of bowie s berlin trilogy along with heroes later in 1977 and lodger in 1979. Throughout the record s first half the guitars are jagged and. Bowie embraced a lot of the new age jazz scene and brought out his saxophone on a few tracks including the pop tingling sound and vision carlos alomar and brian eno heavily influenced the compositions and low represents bowie as the ever struggling artist trying to leave. Vinyl lp album reissue country.

Low might be bowie s best album. The fan club insert of the uk edition uses a different font where catalogue numbers differ from the us numbers the uk spine copies the us spine and adds additional information. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 1982 vinyl release of low on discogs. Best buy series format.

Definitely a departure from bowie s early work as he was struggling with addiction and working exclusively in west berlin. In light of david bowie s passing pitchfork commissioned reviews of several of his classic albums compared to its predecessors david bowie s 11th studio album is noticeably reserved. Electronic rock style. It s cool its enigmatic it s experimental its everything bowie was.

Rca ayl1 3856 series. Top 3 for sure. The uk first edition david bowie low has a cover that uses a modified version of the us cover the catalogue present in the top rh front corner of the us cover has been masked over artifacts are visible. Side one is the meat and potatoes if you like bowie this is the easier side to dance drive groove to.

I love low for so many reasons. But this really is just a great reissue really nice case comes with a wax paper cover to prevent scratching a nice reprint of the old bowie fanclub card. Following through with the avant garde inclinations of station to station yet explicitly breaking with david bowie s past low is a dense challenging album that confirmed his place at rock s cutting edge. Some purists get upset with the notion of remasters and reissues and often with good reason but this reissue of low is brilliant.

Low is as amazing an album as ever and just to have a vinyl of it is awesome.