Everybody Get Low

It was beautiful outside today. The sun was shining brightly, the breeze was blowing sweetly and I was stuck in the office. How bad does that suck? So I started trawling through my iTunes library to find some tunes that remind me of bright days and warm nights.

The song that immediately popped into my head was Gandharva’s “The First Day of Spring” but I didn’t have it on my machine so I kept looking. What I found was Low’s new album The Great Destroyer. Now I know what you are thinking. Low? Low? You mean those lo-fi, slow rockers from Duluth, Minn.? That Low? Are you kidding? What do they have to do with sum-sum-summertime?

Well, I got to tell you, The Great Destroyer is fairly upbeat (by Low’s standards) and there is this one song that really struck me while I sat at my desk staring longingly out the window. Try it on.

Stuff to Sample: Low’s “California” and just because I love you, Gandharva’s “The First Day of Spring”