Low – Double Negative

Are Low descendants of The Cure? Yeah. I'd sort of followed their trajectory for a while and I liked some of the ideas and stuff, but this album I really liked because there's so many things on it. Growing up working in studios, I could see so many engineers going ‘No, no, no, that's wrong! That sounds wrong. That's distorted and overloading and it’s wrong.’ And they put all that so-called ‘wrong stuff’ on it. And it's beautiful when it comes out of nowhere, and then you have those juxtapositions with the beautiful vocals. It's kind of amazing to me that somebody would be brave enough to make an album like this. So that's why it's here on the list. I like it because there are some amazing textures in there that you wouldn't think of.