Specifically with the folks my age, modern music fans tend look at electronic music a bit myopically.  To many of us, EDM music err's in one of two directions;  pulsing intensity or warm cloud-like ambiance.  However, the electronic music experience is as multifaceted as any other genre's...probably more so.

Music, and more to the point, musicians, are cyclical.   A band can arc and pivot in many different directions exploring new sounds, themes, and styles. Between these periods of exploring the aural wilderness, performers will often times return to their roots to remind give them solid footing on their path.

Low is somehow the most, and the least, Minnesotan band to hail from The Gopher State.  On first listen, their growls and blips can nestle perfectly into the chicness of a clandestine Brooklyn art-space.  But on closer examination, their glacial pacing and near constant atonality evokes imagery of the limitless

Starting with those born in Gen-X (earlier, really), it is difficult to understand how critical Can has been to the modern music landscape.  Outside of a handful of music nerds, they have been fairly hidden from the eyes and ears of the mainstream.  Beginning from their 1968 inception, Can's amoebic