Comments on: na: nick lowe http://17dots.com/2007/06/26/na-nick-lowe/ notes from the digital underground Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:55:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John http://17dots.com/2007/06/26/na-nick-lowe/comment-page-1/#comment-6265 John Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:38:35 +0000 http://17dots.com/2007/06/26/na-nick-lowe/#comment-6265 This is no comeback for Nick Lowe, and certainly not a stylistic shift. He made this turn years ago with "The Impossible Bird," stripping down his sound and finding vast amounts of space in which to work as he explored the more soulful, subtle parts of his talent. "Dig My Mood" and "The Convincer" followed. "At My Age" is a fantastic album that, like "the Convincer," seems to find Lowe at a perfectly comfortable crossroads between his older, playful work and his more recent contemplative songwriting style. There were growing pains on "Dig My Mood" (mostly because that mood seemed to be "profoundly depressed") and "The Impossible Bird" was more of a transition between the new and old styles. A long way of saying that he has been heading in this direction for more than a decade and seems to have slipped into a vein that I hope he continues to mine for a long time. This is no comeback for Nick Lowe, and certainly not a stylistic shift. He made this turn years ago with “The Impossible Bird,” stripping down his sound and finding vast amounts of space in which to work as he explored the more soulful, subtle parts of his talent. “Dig My Mood” and “The Convincer” followed. “At My Age” is a fantastic album that, like “the Convincer,” seems to find Lowe at a perfectly comfortable crossroads between his older, playful work and his more recent contemplative songwriting style. There were growing pains on “Dig My Mood” (mostly because that mood seemed to be “profoundly depressed”) and “The Impossible Bird” was more of a transition between the new and old styles. A long way of saying that he has been heading in this direction for more than a decade and seems to have slipped into a vein that I hope he continues to mine for a long time.

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