The second Low record stretches the band’s songwriting in more confident directions, while still maintaining a quietly cathartic allegiance to subtlety. On lead track “Violence,” Alan Sparhawk’s hushed, urgent “You can’t trust violence” set against Mimi Parker’s refrain simply repeating the song’s title hits new, sonorous heights, building slow crescendos. The album reinforces the band’s sparse interiority, while deepening the structure and dynamics.