Alan Sparhawk - Get Still

What this video is

Released August 2024 on Sub Pop Records, 'Get Still' arrives as Sparhawk's debut solo outing following decades as co-founder of Low alongside his wife Mimi Parker, who passed away from cancer in 2022. The video and song emerge from a documented context of grief, artistic reinvention, and sonic rupture: Sparhawk abandons the sparse guitar-and-vocals slowcore idiom of Low in favor of heavily Auto-Tuned vocals,…

Why it matters

The video documents a pivotal aesthetic pivot in the post-slowcore indie canon: Alan Sparhawk, one of the architects of American slowcore through Low, employing Auto-Tune and electronic production as grief-processing tools. As Stereogum noted, the track pushes 'the electronic explorations of Low's…

The director

Ingrid Weise is a music video director confirmed to have directed the official video for Alan Sparhawk's 'Get Still' (2024), as documented by Sub Pop Records, Stereogum, mxdwn Music, Under the Radar Magazine, and Perfect Duluth Day. Further biographical…