For the sake of clarity, here're the details on the forthcoming Low album, Drums and Guns...
Drums and Guns will be available on CD, LP and magical, invisible mp3 formats March 20, 2007 on Sub Pop Records.
Here is a bit of info about the record:
Formed in 1993, Low is from Duluth, Minnesota, and features Alan Sparhawk on vocals and guitar, Mimi Parker on vocals and drums, and Matt Livingston on bass and vocals. Sparhawk and Parker are married with two children; they first met in fourth grade in rural Minnesota.
Drums and Guns is the band's eighth full-length album and second for Sub Pop. It's also, after 2005's The Great Destroyer, the second album they've recorded with producer Dave Fridmann. Drums and Guns features a number of songs that ardent Low fans will recognize from the band's recent live shows. These songs appear here in substantially altered forms, as though they've been taken apart and reassembled in striking new ways, or seen with new eyes. Or, given the lyrical emphasis on murder and death, a more insightful interpretation might see the band killing these songs and bringing them back to life anew. There's no contrivance here, however. While these songs feature new elements (looped vocals, drum machines, etc.) and are thoroughly, radiantly contemporary, they remain undeniably Low's. Drums and Guns possesses the unique, subtle beauty and power we've come to expect from Low, but the record is also profoundly exciting in ways that it's easy to forget music can be.
Track listing:
1. Pretty People
2. Belarus
3. Breaker
4. Dragonfly
5. Sandinista
6. Always Fade
7. Dust on the Window
8. Hatchet
9. Your Poison
10. Take Your Time
11. In Silence
12. Murderer
13. Violent Past
There's a news piece about the new record up on NME today...
Low will be touring extensively in support of the new record. Those dates confirmed so far are listed here.
If you pre-order the new Low album on subpop.com we will include a 7" vinyl single of Hatchet (Optimimi Version) b/w Breaker (Dub Plate) for FREE! These are totally different, completely re-worked versions of the songs found on the album and they are GOOD.
GO HERE TO BUY AND LISTEN TO MP3s: http://www.subpop.com/artists/low