Low - Lies

What this video is

Released October 2015 to accompany Low's eleventh studio album Ones and Sixes on Sub Pop Records, 'Lies' arrived during a moment of heightened US public discourse around immigration, labor rights, and racial identity. Director Manuel Aragon, a Latinx filmmaker from Denver, used the video to foreground the dual invisibility of a Mexican-American day laborer — unseen as a worker on society's margins, and navigating…

Why it matters

Low are among the founding architects of slowcore, a genre defined by decelerated tempos, sparse instrumentation, and harmonically rich vocals. 'Lies,' from Ones and Sixes, represents the band's mid-2010s evolution toward glitch-inflected production in collaboration with engineer BJ Burton, whom…

The director

Manuel Aragon is a Latinx writer, director, and filmmaker from Denver, CO. Known for his narrative film work, his projects include Welcome to the Northside (2016), Ocean Pond (2014), and The Herriot Way (2022). He won the CineLatino Pitch Latino Award for…