I Could Live In Hope is the debut studio album by American band Low, released in 1994 on Vernon Yard Recordings. A reaction to the abrasiveness of alternative rock in the early 1990s —when grunge had a reigning popularity—, Low "eschewed conventional songwriting in favour of mood and movement." Influenced by Brian Eno and Joy Division, the band favored slow-paced compositions, a minimum of instrumentation and an economy of language; working with long-time producer and New York underground mainstay Mark Kramer. Featuring an "unprecedent pace in the then-flowering underground," I Could Live in Hope help to birth the genre known as slowcore, that encompassed acts from Bedhead to Codeine throughout the 1990s. I Could Live In Hope is the debut studio album by American band Low, released in 1994 on Vernon Yard Recordings. A reaction to the abrasiveness of alternative rock in the early 1990s —when grunge had a reigning popularity—, Low "eschewed conventional songwriting in favour of mood and movement." Influenced by Brian Eno and Joy Division, the band favored slow-paced compositions, a minimum of instrumentation and an economy of language; working with long-time producer and New York underground mainstay Mark Kramer. Featuring an "unprecedent pace in the then-flowering underground," I Could Live in Hope help to birth the genre known as slowcore, that encompassed acts from Bedhead to Codeine throughout the 1990s. false 2024-03-22 00:13:56 1994 1994-01-01 1994-01-01 57 Rock 114130 2129133 b4ba367b-55c0-40f8-9634-cf6821ce639f 42faad37-8aaa-42e4-a300-5a7dae79ed24 05605e58-2923-319e-87f0-3cdbf97f57f8 I:\music\Low\Albums\1994 - I Could Live In Hope\folder.jpg Low Low 1 05:50 2 02:16 3 05:48 4 03:51 5 05:39 6 09:50 7 01:50 8 07:29 9 05:16 10 06:16 11 02:59