“After eight years of refining and perfecting the essence of that plodding, murky genre known as "slowcore", Low have worked up quite a backstory. With tools provided by Galaxie 500, Red House Painters, and Spacemen 3, their first two albums, 1994's *I Could Live in Hope* and 1995's *Long Division*, drew the blueprint for slowcore as we know it today. They are the pioneers of a genre of limited var”