Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God [New Vinyl LP] Colored Vinyl

Description: Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God [New Vinyl LP] Colored Vinyl Artist: Alan Sparhawk Title: White Roses, My God Format: Vinyl LP Genre: Rock UPC: 098787165500 Release Date: 2024 Record Label: Sub Pop Notice: Please be aware that you are the Importer of record, and that your Government may charge import duties upon delivery. Album Tracks1. Get Still2. I Made This Beat3. Not the 14. Can U Hear5. Heaven6. Brother7. Black Water8. Feel Something9. Station10. Somebody Else's Room11. Project 4 Ever Alan Sparhawk has always been a prolific, protean musician. A restless soul eager to explore unfamiliar sonic and psychic terrain. Though he's obviously (and justifiably) best-known for his thirty years as frontman of the legendary band Low, a look at Sparhawk's many side projects across that same span of time shows him experimenting with everything from punk and funk to production work and improvisation. Low itself never settled for a set sound or approach. The band was always a collaboration-a conversation, a romance-between Sparhawk and his wife, Mimi Parker, who was the band's co-founder, drummer, co-lead vocalist, and it's blazing irreplaceable heart. To take the journey from Low's hushed early work, through the tremendous melodies of their middle period, all the way to the late lush chaos of their final albums, is to witness heads, hearts, and spirits in an act of perpetual becoming. Parker passed away in 2022 after a long battle with cancer, and there is no question that WHITE ROSES, MY GOD is a record borne of grief. You can hear it in the title, as well as tracks such as "Heaven", in which Sparhawk describes the afterlife, wrenchingly, as "a lonely place if you're alone." You can sense it too in Sparhawk's decision to create this thing entirely on his own: every note, every lyric, every programmed beat. It would be reductive, even foolish, to see grief as the sole source or the final limit of this taut, brilliant, provocative, thrilling album, whose bold experimentation is powered by profound lyrics and propulsive beats. "Can you feel something here?" Sparhawk asks on "Feel Something." The line repeats over and over, evolving first into "I want to feel something here" and then "Can you help me feel something here?" Meanwhile the musical means he's chosen to convey this message-especially the pitch-shifter-might seem at first like they're making it harder to access that very something he wants us (and himself) to feel. Isn't the vocoder a barrier between us and the deep emotionality we've long associated with an Alan Sparhawk vocal? Maybe, maybe not. Probably not. But even if it is, then it's a barrier worth breaking and the music itself is the hammer. Sparhawk conjures forth the ghosts trapped inside these machines. WHITE ROSES, MY GOD is an exorcism whose purpose is not to banish the spirit but to set it free. In many ways WHITE ROSES, MY GOD feels like a hard break with the past, almost a debut. And yet there's incredible continuity with Sparhawk's past work and his traditional ways of working. He's pathbreaking, yet again, invested as ever in the endless process of becoming himself. As he puts it on "Station": "I can please myself with the things I seek out." Us, too. We are lucky to be here to hear it as it happens.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Artist: Alan Sparhawk

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Duration: Album

Genre: Rock

Language: English

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Record Grading: Mint(M)

Record Size: 12"

Record Label: Sub Pop

Release Year: 2024

Sleeve Grading: Mint(M)

Features: Colored Vinyl

Speed: 33 RPM

Release Title: White Roses, My God

Format: Vinyl LP

Album Name: White Roses, My God

Type: Album

Brand: Sub Pop