Things We Lost in the Fire (album)

Things We Lost in the Fire
Studio album by Low
Released	January 22, 2001
Genre	Indie rock, slowcore
Length	54:19
Label	Kranky
Producer	Steve Albini
Low chronology
Secret Name (1999) Things We Lost in the Fire (2001) In the Fishtank 7 (2001)

Things We Lost in the Fire is a 2001 album by Low, their fifth full-length release. In 2006, the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Sunflower" – 4:39
2. "Whitetail" – 5:03
3. "Dinosaur Act" – 4:13
4. "Medicine Magazines" – 4:33
5. "Laser Beam" – 2:54
6. "July" – 5:35
7. "Embrace" – 5:37
8. "Whore" – 4:23
9. "Kind of Girl" – 3:30
10. "Like a Forest" – 2:27
11. "Closer" – 5:06
12. "Untitled" – 0:46
13. "In Metal" – 4:19

Recording information

Engineered by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago.^[2]

Editions

Some overseas editions of the album contain the additional tracks "Overhead" and "Don't Carry It All", which were B-sides of the "Dinosaur Act" single, and were also published later on the 2004 box set of rarities, A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides and Rarities. These two tracks were also included on the vinyl LP release of the album. This is a three-sided album, with the fourth side containing the song lyrics etched into the vinyl.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	87/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[4]
NME	(9/10) [5]
Pitchfork Media	(8.7/10) [6]
PopMatters	[7]

Online music magazine Pitchfork Media placed Things We Lost in the Fire at number 117 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.^[8] The album has also garnered an 87 ("Universal Acclaim") on aggregate site Metacritic.

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