New releases for 27 September 2024

First out of the box this week is a record born of grief. You can hear it in the title, White Roses, My God, as well as in tracks such as ‘Heaven’, in which Alan Sparhawk describes the afterlife, wrenchingly, as “a lonely place if you’re alone”. You can sense it too in Sparhawk’s decision…

Pre-sale of the week: Alan Sparhawk – White Roses, My God, out 27 September

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…