“With blown-out electronics and heavy vocal processing, Low’s Alan Sparhawk grapples with the death of his wife and bandmate, Mimi Parker, giving wild, feverish shape to his grief.”
“Auto-Tune has many uses, not least as kneejerk hip-hop and R&B standby. At their heart, all vocal effects make the familiar different – which feels like the point on what’s billed as Alan Sparhawk’s debut solo album. For 30 years, Sparhawk was half of the slowcore band Low, whose latter years found them, and Sparhawk’s various side projects, experimenting with processed new sounds. Following the ”
“There's no wrong way to grieve, but things can get complicated when there's an audience for your grief. It's particularly tough when said audience might have an idea how they'd like you to share it with them. Such is the challenge put before Alan Sparhawk's debut solo album. Sparhawk's group Low was a beautiful, fragile and perpetually transcendent music force for three decades, all of which he sh”
“White Roses, My God is a compelling experiment from Alan Sparhawk”
