Concert preview

Sometimes good things come from cold places. Low, a Duluth, Minn.-based band, is one of those good things. Low’s music always has seemed to reflect the barren, wintry landscape of their home. Their newest album, “Trust,” a smoldering, sparking fire burning against the backdrop of a blizzard, is no exception.
Low will bring their hold-your-breath intensity to the WOW Hall on Tuesday in support of “Trust.”
With musical textures that include both driving and punishing guitars, as well as lonesome, distant melodies, the album’s sound rises and falls with honest emotion. While each song on “Trust” touches a distinct part of human heaviness, the tracks still blend seamlessly into an unrelenting masterpiece.
The album begins in true slow-core fashion with “Amazing Grace.” An exercise in patience, the notes trickle in; each is given time to unfold and resonate fully against a backdrop of guitar fuzz. “Trust” continues in a similar fashion, each track building on or breaking down the layers of the previous.
On the stand-out track “In the Drugs,” guitarist Alan Sparhawk — in true melancholy form — sings, “I was a child / I was on fire / but I stayed alive while all else died.” He continues until he is joined by percussionist Mimi Parker with the lines, “But the weight was more than you could stand / breaking like dolls / singing like birds / we always get what we deserve / but now I’ve had enough.”
Parker’s vocal high point is in the relatively chipper “Point of Disgust,” where she chillingly sings “Once, I was lost / to the point of disgust … I fell hard / I fell fast” above a modest piano.
With “Trust,” Low brings its ability to fill a room with a hushed ferocity to new levels.
Electronic act Pan American, featuring Mark Nelson, who turns looped beeps and clicks into a sonic dreamscape, will open for Low.
Doors open at 8 p.m. and the show begins at 9 p.m. Tickets are $6 in advance, or $8 at the door.