There's an apocryphal phenomenon where people receive phone calls from the dead. The consistent descriptives are static and haunted, distant voices as though the former person on the other end of the line isn't sure where or who they are — as though the call wasn't a conscious effort wherein skeletal fingers actually dialed a phone but rather some weird psychic connection manifested through technology. And while I haven't ever personally gotten any phone calls from the dead, I think they would sound a lot like "Double Negative." To be sure, there are plenty of more conventional "songy" elements incorporated, as when Low mainstays Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk sing their eerie and lullabaic harmonies over lush and dreamy background tracks — as though the confused ghosts on the other side suddenly found themselves members of Radiohead or No-Man. Think of the soundtrack to a nightmare that somehow becomes comforting.

— Rick Koster