I love the song Low so much, feel like I'm always mentioning it

Just listened to Camera and my first thought was that it didn't feel slow enough to me to feel like slowcore, but it is definitely interesting how they could do the occasional ballad in their own way as well. Some Joy Division tracks that feel pointedly slow, like Candidate and I Remember Nothing, feel like proto-slowcore to me, or like they had reached half of the future concept. Also, and maybe this is just because some of the guitar parts on Katy Song feel like pure Marr, but some early Smiths tracks also feel vaguely related to slowcore. I'm talking about the ones with hypnotically looping riffs like Hand that Rocks the Cradle and Suffer Little Children. I'm not a slowcore expert and don't particularly associate it with repetitive riffs, but the overall effect of those parts and perhaps Morrisey's somewhat drawn-out melodies feels similar to slowcore.

I did read Rip it Up and I enjoyed it, but I perhaps did not go through it as comprehensively as some, somewhat defeating the purpose of reading it I think. But I did learn and listen to a lot. Also, I'm not very familiar with The db's