Low - Days Like These

What this video is

Released June 22, 2021, amid the lingering social and psychological aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and an ongoing national reckoning with racial inequality in the United States, 'Days Like These' arrived as a lead single for Low's HEY WHAT — their first album since the critically acclaimed Double Negative (2018). Directed by Karlos Rene Ayala, a Salvadoran-American artist whose practice foregrounds the unseen…

Why it matters

Represents the apex of Low's noise-folk and glitch-slowcore evolution under producer BJ Burton — a synthesis of minimalist vocal harmony, extreme signal distortion, and post-rock density that reshaped expectations for indie rock in the early 2020s. The video's documentary grammar mirrors the…

The director

Sacramento-based American multimedia artist, photographer, documentary filmmaker, and writer. Raised between El Salvador, Los Angeles, and Sacramento; holds an MA in Literature from CSUS. His practice centers on portraiture of marginalized and everyday…