![]() Low just kept making incredible, innovative records - its 13th album, last year's HEY WHAT, was among the band's best - as Parker lent a sweet, soaring counterpoint to Sparhawk's more desolate sounds. But even when she ceded the vocal spotlight to her musical partner and husband, Alan Sparhawk, her presence was unwavering, unpretentious, commanding, vital. She drummed with brushes and mallets, her words restricted to an impactful minimum. With each pass, her words unfurl as an exhaled mantra they hover and dissipate like warm breaths in wintry air.Įven as the Minnesota band's sound grew busier, darker and more challenging, Parker remained an artist of uncommon restraint. That's it that's "The Plan" in its entirety, though Parker repeats all or part of that last line - "Can I hold it for a week?" - seven times, in a stretch spanning most of the song's nearly four-minute run time. ![]() As in so many Low songs, the words remain minimal to the point of abstraction:
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