Low - Santa's Coming Over

Name: Low - Santa's Coming Over
Uploaded: 2008-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released in November 2008 on Sub Pop Records as a limited 7" single, 'Santa's Coming Over' arrives at a moment when Low — the Duluth, Minnesota slowcore duo of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker — had spent several years broadening their sonic palette under Sub Pop after their foundational work on Kranky. The single functions as a deliberate…

2008 · Indie Slowcore / Sub Pop Mid-Period (2008) · music video

2008Indie Slowcore / Sub Pop Mid-Period (2008)Slowcore / Indie Rock - Sub Pop underground, 2000s Duluth MN scene

What this video is

Released in November 2008 on Sub Pop Records as a limited 7" single, 'Santa's Coming Over' arrives at a moment when Low — the Duluth, Minnesota slowcore duo of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker — had spent several years broadening their sonic palette under Sub Pop after their foundational work on Kranky. The single functions as a deliberate inversion of holiday music convention: where Christmas pop is festive and…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of 2000s slowcore and anti-commercial holiday music. The video's single-shot, zero-edit structure and extreme darkness are rare even within Low's own catalogue, and within the broader indie music video landscape of 2008. The pairing of children's faces, incandescent warmth, and…

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