Song · Low Anthem
“Charlie Darwin” by Low Anthem
From the album Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (2008)
“Charlie Darwin” by Low Anthem appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2013. It was first released in 2008 on the album Oh My God, Charlie Darwin. Its best result is #813 on the WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013).
"Charlie Darwin" comes from Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, the album the Low Anthem released themselves on September 2, 2008, and it went out as a single in September 2009, after Bella Union and Nonesuch had reissued the record. Founders Ben Knox Miller and Jeffrey Prystowsky wrote it together.
The album was made in a Block Island basement rigged up as a makeshift studio over the opening ten days of 2008, with Jesse Lauter co-producing, and it chews on a big argument: the human need for comfort set against Charles Darwin's bleak theories, and how jarring "survival of the fittest" must sound to a believer. The band worked through at least 27 instruments along the way, crotales, pump organ and zither among them, and the record opens hushed, with Miller singing in falsetto.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 813 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
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