Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles — Get Still

JUL 01 2025 · 12:00

Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles — Get Still (2025) Director: Ingrid Weise Era: Post-Pandemic Indie Folk Revival (2024–2025) - Minnesota-rooted acoustic Americana resurgence, shaped by grief, community, and collective music-making in the Sub Pop orbit High. This video is a rare dual-artifact — the second visual interpretation of the same song across two distinct albums and sonic worlds, directed by the same filmmaker. It captures a singular moment of aesthetic and emotional transformation in one of indie rock's most critically respected careers, and serves as primary source material for understanding the Duluth underground's role in Sparhawk's post-Low recovery and reinvention. The video's restraint and documentary warmth make it a formally coherent and archivally significant object. Context: This video emerges from one of the most emotionally documented creative partnerships in recent indie music history. Alan Sparhawk, co-founder of the seminal slowcore band Low, recorded With Trampled by Turtles in the aftermath of the 2022 death of his wife and bandmate Mimi Parker. The album was tracked at Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, with fellow Duluth musicians Trampled by Turtles, who had previously supported Sparhawk by inviting him on their 2023 tour. 'Get Still' exists as a song in two lives: first as an electronically processed, vocoder-drenched track on the 2024 solo album White Roses, My God, and again here, re-rendered through lush acoustic instrumentation — banjo, stand-up bass, and massed harmony vocals. The video's outdoor, observational aesthetic visually mirrors this thematic arc from electronic obfuscation toward unguarded, open-hearted naturalism, embodying what the Sub Pop press notes describe as Sparhawk being 'ready to face the world.' Director notes: The 'Get Still' video for Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles was directed by Ingrid Weise and edited by Alexa Viscius, confirmed by multiple independent sources including Sub Pop Records, Perfect Duluth Day, Under the Radar Magazine, Stereogum, and mxdwn. The video was released May 27, 2025 as the final pre-release single ahead of the album's May 30, 2025 release. Per Stereogum, the video depicts Sparhawk on a sunny hillside, hair in his face, in an observational outdoor setting. Per mxdwn, each scene shows the artist outside and exploring the world, offering a personal view of Sparhawk's life. The approach is consistent with Weise's documentary-inflected, photography-based aesthetic. Notably, Ingrid Weise had also directed the earlier, electronically-oriented original 'Get Still' video for Sparhawk's 2024 solo album White Roses, My God, suggesting a sustained creative partnership across both versions of the song.