I Could Live in Hope cover

I Could Live in Hope

Low

Released

1994

It would be a canard — and inaccurate — to say that Low had already figured out everything they needed to on their first album. But where the debut of the Ramones, say, was both concentrated perfection and ultimately a bit of an artistic straitjacket, the hushed power and sudden intensities of I Could Live In Hope became the foundation for all the remarkable albums to come, Al and Mimi Sparhawk’s utterly simpatico harmonies the not-so-secret weapon from the opening track “Words” forward.