Low is the first in the "Berlin Triology", three albums that Bowie made with Brian Eno (in Berlin...) during a period of attempting to get clean from drugs. The result was three albums that stand out among Bowie's mostly illustrious career. Low is an unusual mix of electronica, rock and ambient vocals, combined with some of the most perfect song writing possible. "Sound And Vision" is definitely the most well known of all the tracks on the album, quite possibly since it's the most palatable, but personally I think that the real gold lies in tracks such as "A New Career In A New Town", and "Art Decade". The album can be (and was, in the day of records) split in to two parts, with the first half containing songs with a more obvious structure and the second half containing more lengthy, generally instrumental tracks. This album proved that Bowie knew how to do "avant-garde", and how to do it well.

This album made history, as it was (arguably) the first album to have been created with ambient music being the overriding concept. Brian Eno is a pioneer of music, and this album is a part of the testimony to that. It still sounds new today, 31 years later, and is just as inspiring and emotive. It takes you away to a different place where nothing much happens, but in the most perfect way imaginable. Turn it on, lie down, close your eyes and just listen: this is something that Eno challenges us to do with his Ambient albums, and it's not easy.