The Low Anthem offers work meant to be held, savored, contemplated, and occasionally stomped along to. The band’s hauntingly beautiful 2009 Nonesuch debut, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, was followed in 2011 by Smart Flesh, the majority of which was recorded in a cavernous, vacant pasta sauce factory, using an eclectic array of instruments, like jaw harp, musical saw, stylophone, antique pump organs, and oversized drum kits. The album's themes include love, longing, and the vain contortions of our lives before death.