“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-” Low's Twitter reads after the passing of drummer Mimi Parker. She had been living with ovarian cancer since 2020, the Guardian reports. She was 55 years old. Parker met her future husband and bandmate Alan Sparhawk in grade school. Low were pioneers of a genre categorized as “slowcore".