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| Bowie teams with producer Brian Eno on Sound And Vision, Breaking Glass, Speed Of Life, Always Crashing In The Same Car, Be My Wife, Weeping Wall and more. |
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| 1 Speed of Life |
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| 2 Breaking Glass |
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| 3 What in the World |
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| 4 Sound and Vision |
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| 5 Always Crashing in the Same Car |
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| 6 Be My Wife |
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| 7 A New Career in a New Town |
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| 8 Warszawa |
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| 9 Art Decade |
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| 10 Weeping Wall |
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| 11 Subterraneans |
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Album Review
Following through with the avant-garde inclinations of "Station to Station", yet explicitly breaking with Bowie's past, "Low" is a dense, challenging album that confirmed Bowie's place at rock's cutting edge. Driven by dissonant synthesizers and electronics, "Low" is divided between brief, angular songs and atmospheric instrumentals. Throughout the record's first half, the guitars are jagged and the synthesizers drone with a menacing robotic pulse, while Bowie's vocals are unnaturally layered and overdubbed. During the instrumental half, the electronics turn cool, which is a relief after the intensity of the preceding avant-pop. Half the credit for "Low"'s success goes to Brian Eno, who explored similar ambient territory on his own releases. Eno functioned as a conduit for Bowie's ideas, and in turn Bowie made the experimentalism of not only Eno, but of the German synth group Kraftwerk and the post-punk group Wire, respectable, if not quite mainstream. Though a handful of the vocal pieces on "Low" are accessible -- "Sound And Vision" has a shimmering guitar hook, and "Be My Wife" subverts soul structure in a surprisingly catchy fashion -- the record is defiantly experimental and dense with detail, providing a new direction for the avant-garde in rock & roll. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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