Friday 16 April 2010

Red Sparrowes - The Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer

LA-based post rockers Red Sparrowes have released their third studio album The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer on April 6.

The Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer maintains their 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"). Earlier records focused on the larger scope of the album, but 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 were suspiciously absent from the playing field over the last three years, and now it's apparent that they were busy drafting the grandest statement and finest achievement of their existence.

Via Sargent House.

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