Red Sparowes: New Album Video

RED SPAROWES PREVIEW FORTHCOMING ALBUM WITH VIDEO TEASER

Los Angeles quintet Red Sparowes is offering a preview of song snippets from its forthcoming epic, heavy and sprawling third album in a video trailer posted here:

The disc, titled The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer will be released via Sargent House on April 6. The band plans to announce spring headlining tour dates in the coming weeks.

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The Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer maintains the Sparowes’ layered arrangements and swirling amplified crescendos, Americana noir soundscapes (punctuated by the extended pedal steel on “In Every Mind”), and gloriously triumphant melodies (“Giving Birth to Imagined Saviors”). However, while earlier records focused on the larger scope of the album, the new album is song-centered, with the individual tracks harboring stronger independent identities. And where previous endeavors found the band propelled by enormous walls of sound, they now temper their monolithic progressions with distinct passages of separated and soft-spoken instrumentation.

Red Sparowes’ latest offering began with the larger existential pondering of truth, faith, order, causality, and the innate demand for an understanding of the larger world around us. While Red Sparowes’ majesty is hardly in need of story, the provision of the larger metaphor yields a heightened depth and gravity to their work.

Red Sparowes consists of guitarist/keyboardist Bryant Clifford Meyer (also of Isis), bassist/pedal steel player Gregory Burns (ex-Halifax Pier), drummer David Clifford (ex-Pleasure Forever), guitarist/keyboardist Andy Arahood (ex-Angel Hair) and guitarist Emma Ruth Rundle (also of The Nocturnes).

The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer Track List
1. Truths Arise
2. In Illusions of Order
3. A Hail of Bombs
4. Giving Birth to Imagined Saviors
5. A Swarm
6. In Every Mind
7. A Mutiny
8. As Each End Looms and Subsides