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With Trampled by Turtles Alan Sparhawk

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Genre: Alternative Folk, Folk, Indie Rock, and Rock.
Format: Vinyl LP Cream Loser Edition

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Condition: Brand New
Release date: May 30, 2025
Catalogue number: SP1680X
Barcode: 0098787168006
Condition: Brand New
Release date: May 30, 2025
Catalogue number: SPCD1680
Barcode: 0098787168020

No one can help you build something beautiful quite like those who know you best.
Alan Sparhawk knows this well.
In his years in Low, he built decades of stirring music with his wife and lifelong creative partner Mimi Parker.
In recent years, he has performed around Minnesota with his son Cyrus in DERECHO Rhythm Section, a funk band that also frequently features his daughter Hollis on vocals.
There’s an irreplaceable naturalism that comes with this kind of dynamic.
Those who know you understand you.
They love you.
They want to help you bring your greatest passions to fruition.
So it made sense that Sparhawk would turn to fellow Duluth musicians Trampled by Turtles to realize his latest record.
As friends and mentees of Low’s, taken under Sparhawk and Parker’s wing from their earliest days as a bar band, Trampled by Turtles have performed with Sparhawk countless times over the years.
The Duluth ties run deep: “There’s a certain vibe that has to do with underdog syndrome, coming from a small town,” Sparhawk muses.
“Some of it is the weird grind and slackness that being at the mercy of Mother Nature puts in you. It humbles you.”
The two artists hold the kind of ironclad bond.
Following Parker’s passing in 2022, Trampled by Turtles invited Sparhawk to join them on tour to give him a space to be surrounded by friends.
Occasionally, he would join them onstage.
The outpouring of love was palpable every time they played together, a surge of warmth.
When playing together is that powerful, why stop there?
In winter, 2024, Sparhawk and Trampled by Turtles created With Trampled by Turtles, a record exactly as its name implies: Collective. Communal. Fraternal. Empathetic.
A vessel for comfort, a reminder of the harmony that can exist when surrounded by those closest to you.
Where White Roses, My God, Sparhawk’s last album, plunged headfirst into electronica and radical vocal modulation, With Trampled by Turtles leans into the folk and bluegrass stylings of its backing band, Sparhawk’s voice now completely unvarnished.
With Trampled by Turtles is far more than just Alan Sparhawk and Trampled by Turtles.
It’s an affirmation of all the people who have been vital in Sparhawk’s life and music, and an opportunity to hold each of their gifts into the light.
It’s producer Nat Harvie, who has been collaborating and performing with him for years.
It’s Sparhawk’s daughter Hollis, who duets with her father on “Not Broken.”
And it’s Mimi Parker, too: “Too High,” “Princess Road Surgery,” and “Not Broken” were all tracks she and Sparhawk had been working on in the last few years.
These songs finally found a setting that stirringly commemorates them, bolstered by a full ensemble to make every note sing.
Their presence is a kind of eternal connection to Parker, a way her musical grace will keep flourishing.

Track List:
1.Stranger
2.Too High
3.Heaven
4.Not Broken
5.Screaming Song
6.Get Still
7.Princess Road Surgery
8.Don't Take Your Light
9.Torn & in Ashes
Format: Vinyl LP Cream Loser Edition

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