| Hey What | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Low |
| Cover: | Low - Hey What.png |
| Released: | September 10, 2021 |
| Length: | 46:08 |
| Label: | Sub Pop |
| Producer: | BJ Burton |
| Prev Title: | Double Negative |
| Prev Year: | 2018 |
Hey What (stylized in all uppercase) is the thirteenth and final studio album by Minnesota-based duo Low, released on September 10, 2021, through Sub Pop. It is their third recording in a row produced by BJ Burton,[1] building on the distorted sound of the band's previous album Double Negative (2018).[2] Burton and Hey What were nominated in the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical category at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards.[3] It is their only album as a duo of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, all earlier Low albums being recorded as a trio.
Hey What was met with widespread critical acclaim upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 84, based on 22 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
Following Mimi Parker's death in 2022, Hey What, Low's de facto last album, has been called "a tribute to Mimi Parker— and a masterpiece at the end of the line".[4]
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| The Guardian | The 50 Best Albums of 2021 | ||
| Les Inrockuptibles | Adrien Durand's Top 10 Albums of 2021 | ||
| Arnaud Ducome's Top 10 Albums of 2021 | |||
| Rémi Boiteux's Top 10 Albums of 2021 | |||
| Valentin Gény's Top 10 Albums of 2021 | |||
| NPR | NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2021 | ||
| Paste | The 50 Best Albums of 2021 | ||
| Pitchfork | The 50 Best Albums of 2021 | ||
| The 31 Best Rock Albums of 2021 |
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| Italian Albums (FIMI)[5] | 89 |
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