Less really is more.

Formed in the mid-’90s as a response to the excesses of grunge, the minimalist trio Low has placed an emphasis on consistently creating haunting, hushed and hypnotic songs.

The band continues playing its strength in recognizing that the space between the notes is just as important as the notes themselves.

-“Trust,” the sixth studio album from the Duluth, Minn., “slowcore” trio, doesn’t steer far from its trodden path of drawn-out dirges and adds only slight, additional orchestration.

With the exception of “Canada,” which weighs in with twice the bombast and churning power of “Dinosaur Act” (from 2001’s skeletal opus “Things We Lost in the Fire”), the other 12 tracks find Low crawling through familiar space.

Take for example “(That’s How You Sing) Amazing Grace.” Stretching beyond the seven-minute mark, the opening track’s winding guitar line combines with lazy, inflected vocals and brushed beats, revealing a return to the sparseness of previous efforts, such as 1996’s “The Curtain Hits the Cast.”

Lyrically, “Trust” finds guitarist and vocalist Alan Sparhawk, drummer Mimi Parker, bandmates, Mormons and husband and wife, once again singing about death, faith and the like.

“Point of Disgust,” the simplest of the album’s 13 cuts, is also the starkest and most striking. Parker’s vocals emerge, floating above a teetering piano melody.

“Shots and Ladders” deals obviously with illness (“They want to keep you for more tests/ Then stick a needle in your chest”) and chimes and soars with subtle and eerie beauty.

Like most of the band’s back catalog, “Trust” is an intimate release, best heard with the blinds drawn, the bedroom door closed, the phone off the hook and headphones on. Though not quite on par with “Things We Lost in the Fire,” it betters itself with uninterrupted, repeated listens.