ABOUT THIS ITEM

The Low Anthem began in 2006 as a collaboration between Ben Knox Miller, a folk musician, poet, and painter from NY's Hudson River Valley and Jeff Prystowsky, jazz bassist and baseball scholar from Jersey. The place was Providence, RI, a post-industrial city reborn as a college town and artistic hotbed. Attending Brown University, the two bonded as DJs on WBRU's freeform graveyard shift in rural Connecticut where their mutual interests in Americana, baseball, and morally agnostic narrative necessitated the formation of The Low Anthem.
Late last year The Low Anthem began recording "Oh My God, Charlie Darwin," a thematic 12 song work, which illuminates the bands ability to create something that is both delicate and hugely evocative. The album was co-produced with and engineered by Jesse Lauter in the cold, bare stillness of a Block Island winter. The abandoned tourist destination was a haven of peace and quiet. The only sounds were the rush of sea wind against the panes of the cabin and the crackling hum of the woodstove. Ten sleepless days and nights. Hundreds of live takes. Many bottles of bourbon. These were the record's principle ingredients and it sounds tremendous.

1. Charlie Darwin
2. To Ohio
3. Ticket Taker
4. The Horizon Is A Beltway
5. Home I'll Never Be
6. Cage The Songbird
7. (Don't) Tremble
8. Music Box
9. Champion Angel
10. To The Ghosts Who Write History Books
11. OMGCD
12. Ohio Reprise