David Bowie ‎– Low

8 months and 9 days after my previous review, this album still haunts, thrills, and ennobles me. I played it this weekend while taking time off from studying, and every song still possesses passion and energy. There are other Bowie albums that are nearly as good - Blackstar, Scary Monsters and Super Creeps - but this album goes beyond genre and even the image of Bowie as a glam rock god. It's a time capsule of electronic sounds that embodies the experimental rock of the 1970s and points towards the ambient and electronica genres of the future. I absolutely recommend it.

you can handle your copy very careful, after a while it sounds used,
surface noise cover an amazing sound !

You can have this pressing on the cheapest needle, the cheapest turntable, the cheapest speakers, and it will still sound amazing.
Incredible pressing, thick, rich, and crisp.

Is this full analog? I'm always skeptical of modern remasters.

I highly recommend this wonderful remaster of Low. Dynamic, full, and rich. Huge improvement over the very thin, quiet original mix. My copy is nice and quiet too.

It's gatefold, like europe 1991 version .. . .

I would recommend this album to anyone who wants to explore unusual, non-commercial, or experimental music. As a 28 year old, I wasn't alive when Low came out. I've read that Bowie fans were split into factions over it, some preferring side A, others side B. 41 years later, and 2 years and 4 months after Bowie's death, it is an album that feels like a cohesive whole, with the sonic experimentation of side A songs like "A New Career in a New Town" and "Breaking Glass" providing an intro to the ambient, Krautrock-influenced landscapes of "Subterraneans" and "Warszawa". I was only a moderate fan of Bowie before buying this album, now I am going to seek out the rest of the Parlophone 2018 reissues and whatever affordable used pressings I happen to come across. One of the 100 or so best albums I've heard in my lifetime. You must listen to this album. A+.

My copy is a single orange vinyl LP not two

Compared this to a 1st Canadian Pressing. This repress is mastered significantly louder and (probably because of this) is more compressed sounding. The low end is pumped up quite a bit, so much so that high end details are muffled. Finally, there’s more surface noise on this pressing in comparison (both copies are very clean). Still not a horrible pressing at all, just not preferable IMHO.