Low's Mimi Parker had a voice that let the light in
Parker's crystalline vocals and spare percussion gave Low's sound a grounding force and a leavening agent all at once. She died Saturday, but her voice is eternal.
Mimi Parker died Saturday, but her voice rings out in the present tense. It's eternal, radiant.
It's a warm, fragile thing, that voice. It shimmers warmly but cuts through the din like a spotlight. It wavers but holds focus. For just one example across nearly three decades of music, listen to "The Plan," from Low's 1996 album The Curtain Hits the Cast:
As in so many Low songs, the words remain minimal to the point of abstraction:
