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Swinging troubadour’s foray into Celtic myth and psychedelic daydreams, reborn in stereo...

There is something deeply weird about seeing four people onstage at a Low gig. In recent years, it has often seemed as if Alan Sparhawk, in particular, has sought to transcend or subvert people’s expectations of how Low should sound. Surely, though, filling out the sound with a keyboard player is tantamount to sacrilege?

Thank you one and all for your extraordinary patience and willingness to play along with the game, and my apologies for not publishing messages from those of you who guessed correctly. Today, finally, I can reveal the tremendous mystery record that’s been preoccupying me for the past few weeks: check out Number Four in the list below.

Transcendent ’90s gem now includes bonus disc of home demos...

Details of a new 'Best Of' compilation also announced

Weird list, I think. Two terrific albums from Preservation’s Circa offshoot, though. The mystery record that’s been intriguing so many of you , by the way, is going to be announced in about ten days. So I guess maybe one more week of prickteasing after this…

Sweet folk, baroque pop and free jazz! Robin Pecknold weighs his emotional baggage on beautiful second...

A revealing piece from Duluth, February 2011

Away, again, from Animal Collective – and into a world of rapture, reveries, and great washes of beautiful sound...

Lewdly funny adventure fantasy. Bow down for a new star...