Track Listing

1. I Hear...goodnight
2. Down By The River
3. Invitation Day
4. When I Called Upon Your Seed
5. Cody
6. Lordy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71384 in Music
• Released on: 2005-09-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: EP

Amazon.co.uk Review
It was a brilliant mind that schemed to bring Low and the Dirty Three together for In the Fishtank, a natural fusion of Low's woeful elegance and Dirty Three's delicate folk. Low are well practised in the art of using less to inspire more. Their minimal indie-rock melodies create sombre moods with sparse instruments. Every chord, staggered drum beat or note from front woman Mimi Parker's voice hangs in the air with the importance of a slow-motion raindrop falling to a parched earth. The Dirty Three are equally conservative with their skills, creating emotional flurries by simply dragging a bow across a violin or strumming a note from a guitar, sometimes building the two into a storm of sad beauty. As Parker croons like a country girl with a broken heart, these sombre lullabies stretch like lost rural highways across the post-rock landscape. Although it's a sonically quiet album, it's beautiful in its simplicity, saying so much in so many pregnant spaces. The final track, "Lordy" is definitely the standout though, sounding like an old gospel gem that builds intensity as the bands jam around the lyrics "Lordy, save my soul/from sinning/from myself". Overall, In the Fishtank is an inspired set of material that will make slow-core fans hope these greatly talented bands record together more often. --Jennifer Maerz

Customer Reviews

POST-ROCK MARVEL TEAM-UP
I love Dirty Three and I must admit I can take or leave Low - they're nice enough but I find them a tad dull. But, just like with the Marvel comics' team-ups, it's the combinatin of each superhero's powers that saves the day. You do get scene's where Low are slaying evil in one song and it's cloberin' time from dirty three in another, and even when they're not playing together, you know they're being watched by the other band and are showing their best stuff. Together though,it's amazing, warren's violin complements the Low vocals perfectly but in the background is the controlled but at the same time tourettes - like druming of Jim White, a man who lives in a world where his contmpories make careers from going 'quiet tap, quiet tap, loud snare' for song after song and he collects toy drums and reigns supreme.