“Sub Pop Records” Archives

Some of the most challenging music of Low’s career, but also some of the most daring, intriguing, and rewarding.

One of the best albums of 2007 so far, as well as one of the best albums of Low’s career.

This album glows like a little gem, and is there whenever I need comforting or just want to give my ears a treat.

This could be a lost classic of the late ’80s British punk scene or the DC post-punk movement.

She has a wistfully beautiful voice that can make you fall in love with her from a distance.

He has only two releases in his young career, but Sam Beam has already made a believer of me for life.

This is an electro-pop record that doesn’t properly belong to any movement or time period.

This new album contains all of the same elements that made the debut so great, but that palpable energy seems lacking.

From the start, John Orth’s songwriting is notable for its strangely cryptic and elliptical verse.

This is country-folk music fresh from the fields, still crusted in dirt and sweat from a day’s hard work.

Sam Beam is a poet, plain and simple.

Thomas is the kind of performer that could sing gibberish and make it sound good.

Beneath the unaccustomed level of noise, Jurado remains as incisive a writer as ever, and has never sounded better vocally.

‘Post to Wire’ sounds like something you’d expect from a label like 4AD rather than what was once the home of grunge.

Matthews seems to love to play with words as much as as he loves to play with orchestration and arrangements.

Eric Matthews has achieved an interesting, mysterious pop sound that oozes suaveness and sophistication.

Jurado’s lyrics manage to describe tales that seem epic, struggles that seem like something truly overcome.

After the initial wonder with all of the songs, there are definitely songs that begin to take a backseat to others.

The territory that Jurado explores is not for those seeking easy answers wrapped up in pop melodies.

Saint Etienne is another appropriate example of Sub Pop veering towards a more refined style of music.