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 online. The disc, titled "The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer" will be released via Sargent House on April 6th, 2010. The band plans to announce spring headlining tour dates in the coming weeks.

Though Red Sparowes' music thrives unbound by narrative, the band provides a roadmap to their muse. Their 2005 debut album, "At The Soundless Dawn," cast the scientific inevitability of the Sixth Extinction into a grand funeral oration, revealing the message within the individual track titles. Their second full-length, "Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun" (2006) provided a synopsis of the Great Sparrow campaign of the Great Leap Forward, laying bare its conceptual role. "The Aphorisms" EP (2008 digital, 2009 12" vinyl) served a thematic precursor to the next album.

Red Sparowes' latest offering, "The Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer," 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" was recorded August - September 2009 at Infrasonic Sound by Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Big Business, Tool). Album photography and design by Greg Burns and layout by Sonny Kay.

Artist: Red Sparowes

Album: The Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer

Truths Arise

1. In Illusions of Order
2. A Hail of Bombs
3. Giving Birth to Imagined Saviors
4. A Swarm
5. In Every Mind
6. A Mutiny
7. As Each End Looms and Subsides

Video: Red Sparowes - "The Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer" trailer"

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