Low

The first (Heroes and Lodger would follow) of Bowie's three Berlin albums. Living there as a semi-recluse for three years, he worked with Svengali/producer Brian Eno and the results of their collaborations helped change the face of the European mainstream. Artists such as Gary Numan, Ultravox and OMD were indebted to the sound Bowie had created with the synthesizer to build a somewhat terse wall of sound. Critically acclaimed, but a relative commercial failure, apart from the surprise `Sound And Vision' hit single, it remains as a pertinent reminder of Bowie's ability to surprise and enlighten.

Q (6/00, p.80)
- Ranked #14 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"

NME (9/18/93, p.19)
- Ranked #24 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s.

NME (10/2/93, p.29)
- Ranked #67 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'

Rolling Stone (11/22/01, p.90)
- 5 stars out of 5 - "...LOW flows together into a lyrical, hallucinatory, miraculously beautiful whole, the music of an overstimulated mind in an exhausted body..."

Q (10/91)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...the critical acclaim (LOW)
received at the time still seems justified....a crucial part of rock history..."

Mojo (2/02, p.84)
- "...The first and best of the so-called Berlin trilogy....'Sound And Vision', a remarkable venture into hypno-disco, typifies the approach. Hooks and melodies abound, but listen a little deeper and you'll hear some of the most radically constructed - and produced - 'pop' ever made."