Low

Low was a legendary slowcore band that started out in the '90s primarily as the duo of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker (who later became husband and wife), along with a series of bass players over the years, John Nichols being the latest. The central premise of Low's approach was to take their songs and slow them down to a kind of crawl that elevated their intensity and exposed more layers of beauty. Legend has it that the band developed this style at the height of the grunge years when Sparhawk started to slow down his songs to spite the audience, which then became their thing, helping them become the public face of the slowcore genre. Their music continued to grow as they began to include elements of industrial noise into their arrangements without sacrificing their central vision and instantly recognizable sound.  (Parker, the heart and soul of the band, passed away in 2022.)