Low’s Mimi Parker Has Died

Low’s Mimi Parker has died. “Friends, it’s hard to put the universe into language and into a short message, but…” Alan Sparhawk, Parker’s husband and the group’s different half, introduced on social media. “She passed away last night, surrounded by family and love, including yours. Keep her name close and sacred. Share this moment with someone who needs you. Love is indeed the most important thing.” Parker was recognized with ovarian most cancers in December 2020. Earlier this 12 months, the band canceled reveals scheduled for this summer season and fall as she underwent remedy.

Parker fashioned Low with Sparhawk in Duluth, Minnesota in 1993, together with bassist John Nichols. They recorded a demo with producer Kramer, who labored with the band on their 1994 debut I Could Live In Hope and their 1995 follow-up Long Division. Parker and Sparhawk labored with many alternative producers, together with Steve Albini (1999’s and 2001’s Things We Lost In The Fire), Dave Fridmann (2005’s The Great Destroyer and 2007’s Drums And Guns), Jeff Tweedy (2013’s The Invisible Way), and with BJ Burton on their most up-to-date run of albums: 2015’s Ones And Sixes, 2018’s Double Negative, and final 12 months’s HEY WHAT.

Though they invited many collaborators into the fold, Parker and Sparhawk remained the group’s core, with their angelic twin vocals and Parker’s oftentimes minimal percussion. Low weren’t afraid of change, regularly growing and fracturing and mutating their sound over the course of the final three a long time.