Low singer and guitarist Alan Sparhawk has announced the details of a solo album that he discussed in a recent New Yorker profile. The musician’s follow-up to 2006’s Solo Guitar is titled White Roses, My God and will arrive on September 27 via Sub Pop. He’s also shared the electronic lead single “Can U Hear” and a Rick Alverson–directed music video, which you can watch below.

White Roses, My God was born just as much from the grieving process following the death of Mimi Parker—Low’s inimitable drummer and vocalist, and Sparhawk’s wife—in late 2022, as it was the insatiable desire to continue experimenting musically in new ways. Recorded at 20 Below in Duluth, Minnesota, the album was co-produced and engineered by Sparhawk and Nat Harvie, and mastered by Heba Kadry.

Sparhawk will also head our on tour in support of his new solo music. After playing a few November dates in the United Kingdom, including a set at Pitchfork Music Festival London, he will return to North America to open for Godspeed You! Black Emperor on their upcoming tour. Once that wraps, Sparhawk will pause for the holiday stretch and then return to the road in early 2025, beginning with a show in Fargo, North Dakota, on January 13. See Sparhawk’s full list of tour dates below.

Low released their final studio album of Parker’s lifetime, Hey What, in September 2021. Revisit “Mimi Parker Was Indie Rock’s Guardian Angel.”

Alan Sparhawk: White Roses, My God

White Roses, My God:

01 Get Still
02 I Made This Beat
03 Not the 1
04 Can U Hear
05 Heaven
06 Brother
07 Black Water
08 Feel Something
09 Station
10 Somebody Else’s Room
11 Project 4 Ever

Alan Sparhawk:

11-02 Dublin, Ireland – Opium
11-04 Leeds, England – Brudenell Social Club
11-05 Cardiff, Wales – Clwb Ifor Bach
11-06 London, England – Pitchfork Music Festival (Barbican Centre) $
11-08 Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed #
11-09 Saint Paul, MN – Palace Theatre #
11-11 Lawrence, KS – TBD #
11-12 Fayetteville, AR – George’s Majestic Lounge #
11-13 Nashville, TN – Basement East #
11-14 Knoxville, TN – Bijou Theater #
11-15 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade #
11-16 Charleston, SC – Music Farm #
11-17 Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom #
11-19 Washington, D.C. – 9:30 Club #
11-22 Norwalk, CT – District Music Hall #
11-23 Boston, MA – Roadrunner #
11-24 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer #
01-13 Fargo, ND – The Aquarium
01-15 Bozeman, MT – The Rialto
01-17 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
01-18 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
01-20 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
01-24 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
01-25 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
04-02 Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere

$ with Jessica Pratt
# with Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Pitchfork Music Festival London 2024