Low - Dancing and Blood

What this video is

Released June 12, 2018, as part of the 'Double Negative Triptych,' 'Dancing and Blood' is the second segment of a three-part video suite coinciding with Low's 12th studio album, Double Negative (Sub Pop, September 14, 2018). Marking the band's 25th year, the album represented a radical turn toward noise, distortion, and digital deconstruction, produced by BJ Burton at Justin Vernon's April Base studio in Eau…

Why it matters

A landmark document of late-2010s slowcore and experimental indie at its most uncompromising. Low's Double Negative era — and this video specifically — represents a convergence of noise-rock, post-rock minimalism, and digital glitch aesthetics that pushed the genre's visual language away from…

The director

Karlos Rene Ayala is an American multimedia artist based in Sacramento, California, working across film, documentary, street photography, and writing. He served as both cinematographer and director on Low-related projects, including the 'Quorum' segment (as…