Low Became One With The Heat At Pitchfork Festival 2019
(WorldNews Music)

“You should be ashamed of yourselves that you’re not watching Mavis Staples right now.� Before Low had played a single note on the first night of Pitchfork Music Festival 2019, that was how Alan Sparhawk introduced his band. Genuinely aghast that people had come and chosen to listen to their music, rather than the legendary singer with whom they conflicted. Then, in a kind of beleaguered, self-deprecating tone that seemed perfectly characteristic of Low, he continued: “But, we’re here.� In that moment, he might’ve been downplaying it, a half-hearted promise that Low would try to do something beautiful for all these foolish listeners on the wrong side...