Against my better judgment (er, my wallet’s better judgment, that is…) I am probably going to stop and buy Lowest of the Low’s new CD Sordid Fiction today. Here’s a review that was posted on their site:

CD review from Eye Weekly 16 Sept 2004
LOWEST OF THE LOW
Sordid Fiction Maple Music/Universal

They were grouped with the then-burgeoning early-’90s alternative-rock nation, but with their sturdy no-frills rock sound and Ron Hawkins’ heartfelt literary aspirations, the Lowest of the Low were more like scrappy younger cousins to The Tragically Hip’s peerless thinking-man’s hoser rock.

And they still are as Sordid Fiction sees them pick up right where they left off a decade back, when the Low were one of T.O.’s best and most beloved.
“We’re the same in a different way,” Hawkins sings on “A Casual Overdose” — which could be a knowing nod to the Low themselves — and thanks to vintage-sounding Low cuts like the freewheeling “The Last Recidivist,” Stephen Stanley’s bittersweet winner, “Your Birthday Party,” and the pining ache of “Giulietta the Just,” Sordid Fiction brims with the spirit of a band grateful for another chance to get back to where they once belonged.

Yay for new Low!