The Low Anthem recently made its Nonesuch debut with the release of Oh My God, Charlie Darwin. The band has now made its way to the UK for a special gig at London's Union Chapel presented by MOJO magazine Tuesday. The Sunday Times gives the album four stars, calling attention to the closing-track reprise: "It’s wonderful, and effectively says: 'Not only have we just made a great album, but we could, if we chose, take these songs, rework them and make another equally great but entirely different album.' I think we can safely file the Low Anthem among 'the fittest.'"
The Low Anthem recently made its Nonesuch debut with the release of Oh My God, Charlie Darwin. The band has now made its way to the UK, where the new album releases on Bella Union, for a special gig at London's Union Chapel presented by MOJO magazine Tuesday night.
In the UK, the Sunday Times gives Oh My God, Charlie Darwin four stars. Reviewer Mark Edwards says the band's look at Social Darwinism, and the ruthlessness inherent in the idea that only the "fittest" survive, separates it from the peers with whom it is often compared, like Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver.
The album is further distinguished by its inclusion of tunes like the "knowing barroom stomps of Tom Waits."
Edwards cites the album closer, a reprise and reworking of the earlier track "To Ohio," as an example of The Low Anthem's masterly music-making skills:
It’s wonderful, and effectively says: “Not only have we just made a great album, but we could, if we chose, take these songs, rework them and make another equally great but entirely different album.” I think we can safely file the Low Anthem among “the fittest."
Read the complete review at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk.
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