Low: Classic or classic?

I had no idea.

I don't think they made an official announcement before, but when they did the live shows from home during lockdown she was sometimes absent from those, so I think people knew something was wrong.

i believe she mentioned it in a radio interview earlier this year - don’t have a source handy but i think it’s linked upthread somewhere

yes, in this post on January 20th:

Low: Classic or classic?

Whenever she was gone, or Alan was doing something else, I just figured she was doing family stuff.

:( unfortunately advanced ovarian cancer doesn't have great long-term prognosis. hope she can beat the odds.

Upsetting news. Best wishes to them.

absolutely dreadful news, best of luck to them, hopefully mimi will successfully recover

Yes <3

It's been some years for me since I saw them last and while I had hoped to see the Double Negative tour that wasn't an option due to some surgery I had around that time. That's small potatoes to this and now my selfish wish to see them again is because I just want her to make it through this.

Have to say I got a little choked up listening to “Don’t Walk Away” tonight— something about it radiates the ‘despite everything i love you more than anything’ vibe that happens with your person. I really hope Mimi is in good hands and has a full recovery.

In Metal = instant tears

:(

Very sorry, y’all. Mim is in a pretty fragile state and it’s just not possible to perform or travel for now. https://t.co/IWwKn6CKRC

— LOW (@lowtheband) September 12, 2022

Aw, that's bad news. Hopefully she's getting the treatment she needs, even if that's what is keeping her from playing.

They just cancelled the UK and Europe dates in November. Send your positive thoughts and energies Mimi’s way.

RIP Mimi :(

Friends, it’s hard to put the universe into language and into a short message, but

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.

— LOW (@lowtheband) November 6, 2022

so fucking sad, what a voice

holy shit, so awful. RIP

oh no, that's awful. Knew she was ill, but was hoping for good news.

*shakes head*

I've not the words.

fuck

RIP, this is really sad to hear.

No.

this is heartbreaking. it's pretty hard to put into words what her voice and presence meant. one of the greatest bands of all time full stop.

gutted

this is heartbreaking. it's pretty hard to put into words what her voice and presence meant. one of the greatest bands of all time full stop.

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, November 6, 2022 10:02 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

<3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdH3mTpjq-U

Holy shit

So awful, so young. Hard to think of another band that had kept it going with such perfect alchemy, pushing themselves to new heights, for as long as they have been. She was the core ingredient, just angelic in the music so often.

So glad I saw them at Big Ears. This hurts bad

god damn this is sad

so sad, one of my all time favourite singers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=069qtEqtDJc

this is fucked up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdH3mTpjq-U

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), 6. november 2022 17:13 (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

In Metal was the one I went to as well. This is hard.

Won’t ever forget when I saw them this past March and they played “2-Step,” and when she came in, it felt like life might be worth living— her voice had that kind of emotional heft and potency.

Absolutely devastated. RIP.

I will let these words stand for my feelings.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/to-memory-of-74305024

“Weight of Water” and “Laser Beam”

This is the kind of news that makes me never want to listen to music again. Or only listen to music.

Fuck. RIP. Really genuinely sad.

Once I was lost
To the point of disgust
I had in my sight
Lack of vision
Lack of light
I held hard
I held fast
Mercy me
Never last

Then in the dust
All the things
We discussed
Were thrown to the wind
So at last
We begin
So we fall hard
We fall fast
Mercy me
Never last

I felt so lonely and isolated during the lockdowns in 2020 but the band’s weekly IG Live concerts gave me something to look forward to when everything else seemed so bleak, a way to experience something beautiful together with other people. A salve at a time when I dearly needed it.

So sad. Really feel for Alan, their kids and all of us who gained so much from their music.

I would like to share a small gift. Here are my notes:

During summer 1995, Low toured America with the band the Glee Club, playing a show one evening at UC Irvine, where I was attending graduate school. They needed a place to crash that evening and I happily volunteered, having fallen in love with their music on an earlier date on campus in late 1994. The following day they performed live in studio on my campus radio show. The sound quality of this performance, copied from a source cassette onto a further cassette and then digitized by me a long while back at 320 mp3 quality, may not be the best, but I hope it suffices. Please note Al's between song comments are at a much lower volume than the musical performances. Watermarked promo photo from the era originally taken by Daniel Corrigan.

Mimi Parker's passing was announced today, November 6, 2022. I wanted to share this gift to all who might enjoy it. They were remarkable from that first album alone. There was so much more to come. May she rest well. May all the memories of her time here sharing her gifts be strong.

https://soundcloud.com/nedraggett/sets/low-live-on-neds-musical-dustbin-on-kuci-889-fm-july-1995

This is so sad. Just devastating.

Low is the greatest Minnesota band, but they can only be understood as a Duluth band. The North Shore of Lake Superior is such a powerful and beautiful place, if you've ever been there in late fall or winter you can't stare out at the vast, grey, forbidding lake and not feel the weight of geologic time and be in awe. Duluth in winter can feel like the last outpost at the end of the world. The band was part of that place and that place was a part of the band.

Also, they stayed. But not like Prince, holed up in Paisley Park, but -- unlike most Minnesota music legends save Grant Hart -- they were among us. They played so many small, local shows, benefits, etc. Alan was much more visible than Mimi, but I put that down to their personalities. But as legendary as they were, they felt like a part of *our scene*, not above it.

The last time I saw them was at the Square Lake Festival. It's a small festival, my friend puts it on at his father's farm northwest of the Twin Cities. The stage stands next to an old-fashioned windmill. It always been a close-knit, DIY festival, only a couple hundred people. But despite the fact they could have played much bigger venues for the Hey What release show, they chose to do it there.

It was a beautiful fall evening, just a touch of chill in the air. During the quiet parts, you could hear the breeze through the trees in the grove that surrounded the farmstead. Throughout the show, the sounds of geese honking as they flew south over the farm would drift in and out of the mix. It was one of the the greatest shows I ever saw, and the most perfect Low show - the band as part of the natural world, of Minnesota.

I envy you. But I appreciate that ultimately it was a show for those who were truly there, always.

<3 amazing post ums

bless you ums

thanks so much for that ums

omg