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Audio CD (29 Nov 1999)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: EP
Label: Tugboat
ASIN: B00002R0SK

Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,354 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)
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#66 in Music > Christmas Music > Rock & Indie

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To the casual observer, the holidays are the happiest, jolliest time of the year: the blinking lights, the merry carols, the parties, the good cheer on every street corner and in every shop. However, the statistics tell us that, for many, the holidays are the time of year when depression reaches its annual peak. It is for these people, then, that American slow-core three-piece Low have released Christmas, their collection of heartbreakingly downbeat holiday songs. The eight songs on this mini album are a mix of new compositions--"If You Were Born Today", the sparkling "Just Like Christmas"--and traditional favourites--"Silent Night" and their sublime take on "Little Drummer Boy". Their version of Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas" is particularly gorgeous: Mimi Parker's vocals drawing out the pain of holiday loneliness over the sparsest of arrangements, the whole thing sounding like Mazzy Star on tranquilisers. This is not an album for festive gatherings; rather, it's the perfect escape from the mania of the season. Quietly compelling, touching and, above all, perhaps the most moving and sincere Christmas album you're likely to hear. --Robert Burrow

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5.0 out of 5 stars Just Like Christmas - All year round, 24 Sep 2004

By	"ianjgoodchild" - See all my reviews

Oh, the pain of christmas - you can't help thinking that the music perenially droning in the shops and incessantly on Radio and TV helps to explain why Christmas is the season of the year with the highest rate of suicide.

Low's 'Christmas', on the other hand, like Spector's 'Christmas Album' is music to warm your soul instead - an absurdly cheap mini-CD which is one of Low's most pure, self-contained and poignant efforts. Their original compositions here are all full of such emptional depth and a haunting, childlike innocence and honesty - no other band on this planet could produce a jaunty, sleigh-bell driven singalong like 'Just Like Christmas' without being laughed off the face of the earth.

The traditionals are just beautiful: 'Little Drummer Boy', with it's slowed down wall of distorted guitar and thumping drum set against perfectly levelled vocals is an absolute gem and 'Silent Night'- a simple vocal (Alan and Mimi in total intuitive harmony) and acoustic version of this tired standard, is turned into a thing of pure majesty. Likewise, their drastic revision of "Elvis's" 'Blue Christmas' retains the spirit (not the schmaltz)of the original, but takes on a whole other dimension with the minimalistic instrumentation and Mimi's almost sultry vocals. There's more - but you should really hear it yourself.

To be fair, most of Low's CDs leave their listeners only partially won over (some tracks appeal instantly, whilst others just don't resonate with people) but for me, 'Christmas' captures the essence and spirit (and I guess, spirituality) of Low at their absolute best on every single track here - vocal perfection, stark, austere instrumentation, and that special sound (shared in spirit, with the likes of Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Jesus & Mary Chain, Big Star, Joy Division, Brian Wilson and Phil Spector) that hits you in the head and the heart. Put it this way: any Christmas LP that you want to play (and which still sounds good) in August is got to be worth having. And I've had this for a few years now too...

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5.0 out of 5 stars A glimpse of Christmas when it meant something., 8 Oct 2003

By	"mrgavinlewiswright" - See all my reviews

You know, do you ever feel at Christmas times, that you are deeply unhappy with how things are, and you long for a nostalgic glimpse at when Christmas meant something to people?
Please buy this record - it has got me through the last three Christmasses, and I can foresee my reliance on it continuing for the next ten (until appocalypse).
It'll make you sad, though...

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not quite a silent night, 22 Nov 2001

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The concept of a Low Christmas album seems ludicrous, when you consider the Minnesota three's down-beat approach and usually dismal subject matter. Almost the complete antithesis of the accepted notion of 'Christmas spirit'. But it is precisely this factor that makes Christmas work.

The majority of non-traditional Christmas albums are released by saccharine-coated pop acts. The result is usually a combination of the sickly sweet pop style with a few jingle bells thrown in to add that wintery feel. Low take the same approach to combining styles, but their own is so quiet - almost hymnal - that when embellished by the jingles and chimes of some seasonal bells, the end result is not so much fusion as traditional. Little Drummer Boy has a choral arrangement combined with fuzz guitars to offer something completely familiar, yet strangely unique. Long Way Around the Sea, a Low composition, has their stamp all over it, yet is as beautiful and traditional-sounding a carol as Silent Night.

Tongue in cheek? Perhaps - but Low manage to evoke a truer sense of Christmas spirit than James Brown, Mariah Carey, Phil Spector or any other 'pop' act ever seems to have. Now surely that's worth a sixpence in their stocking.

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5.0 out of 5 stars For Christmas Past Present and Future
Christmas again - what better time to review Low's superb festive album which portrays a more common Christmas experience for many than the forced jollity of your Slade or Wizzard... Read more

Published 23 months ago by D. Newton

5.0 out of 5 stars Too beautiful to stay awake too
Even my mum was bowled over by the beauty of the tracks on this albumn - it has been the back drop to some of the most wonderful Christmas days we have ever had. Read more

Published on 15 Nov 2006 by Katy Red

5.0 out of 5 stars It's Christmas time...
I first heard Just Like Christmas on Marc&Lard's Radio 1 show in the late 1990's- this lead me to this divine e.p. Read more

Published on 11 Dec 2002 by Jason Parkes

4.0 out of 5 stars Christmas without the Commercial
If you don't wish it could be Christmas everyday, then this is the album for you. Although the standout track has to be "Just like Christmas" strong support is offered... Read more

Published on 7 Dec 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Great alternate Christmas Album
If I told you that this album was a country album, performed by mormons, you are likley to be apprehensive, but open your mind and soak this album up. Read more

Published on 16 Dec 1999 by clive.mangan@clara.net

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