Recorded Autumn 1994 I Could Live In Hope
(1994) Long Division
(1995) Release date 18 February 1994 Label Vernon Yard Recordings | Length 57:05 Artist Low Producer Kramer | |
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Released 5 December 1994 (1994-12-05) Genres Slowcore, Indie rock, Dream pop Similar Low albums, Slowcore albums, Other albums | ||
I Could Live In Hope is the debut studio album by American band Low, released in 1994 on Vernon Yard Recordings. A reaction to the abrasiveness of alternative rock in the early 1990s —when grunge had a reigning popularity—, Low "eschewed conventional songwriting in favour of mood and movement." Influenced by Brian Eno and Joy Division, the band favored slow-paced compositions, a minimum of instrumentation and an economy of language; working with long-time producer and New York underground mainstay Mark Kramer. Featuring an "unprecedent pace in the then-flowering underground," I Could Live in Hope help to birth the genre known as slowcore, that encompassed acts from Bedhead to Codeine throughout the 1990s.
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Accolades
The information regarding accolades attributed to I Could Live in Hope is adapted from Acclaimed Music, except where otherwise noted.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Alan Sparhawk, Mimi Parker and John Nicols, except where indicated.
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of I Could Live in Hope.
Songs
1Words5:50
2Fear2:17
3Cut5:48