Low
Sublimely Minimal Indie Rockers By T. Cole RachelMinnesota husband and wife bucked the grunge trend by crafting songs of an almost spectral minimalism.
Few bands make so much out of so little in quite the same way that Low does. Formed in 1993 by the husband and wife duo of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker in Duluth, Minnesota, the band bucked the grunge trend by crafting songs of an almost spectral minimalism: slow building, erudite compositions built on reverby guitars and muted drumming held aloft by Sparhawk and Parker’s soaring vocal harmonies. With the release of 1994’s I Could Live In Hope, the band quickly established themselves as the forebears of what would come to be known as the “slowcore” movement, a label shared with equally somnambulistic bands like Bedhead and Codeine. Subsequent Low albums like Trust and The Great Destroyer gradually expanded on the band’s signature sound (mostly by adding layers of fuzz and drone), but Low’s best work remains rooted in the quasi-religious fervor of their songs (Sparhawk and Parker are practicing Mormons) and the duo's impossibly beautiful vocal interplay.
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