Red Sparowes
The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer
Label: Sargent House
Genre: Post Rock / Avant Rock
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Thunderheads storming across the prairie, outraged students taking to the streets, migratory herds stampeding along the tundra--any number of images could describe the grandiose scope of Red Sparowes’ lush vignettes. Wielding both a master’s sense of nuance and an outsider artist’s unhindered expressionist zeal, the Los Angeles quintet created a catalog of haunting and hallucinatory guitar orchestrations over the course of the millennium’s opening decade. With three albums, a string of split releases, multiple U.S. and European tours, and a number of line-up changes under their belt, Red Sparowes released their most focused release in 2010, The Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer. For Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer recording consisted of guitarist/keyboardist Bryant Clifford Meyer (Palms, 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 (Marriages, The Nocturnes). The album was recorded August - September 2009 at Infrasonic Sound by Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Big Business, Tool). Red Sparowes have been dormant for the last decade but will be reuniting to headline Roadburn 2020 (date tbc now), curated by former Red Sparowes guitar player Emma Ruth Rundle.