Beschreibung
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. There has
never been as pronounced of a leap in style and scope as with Red Sparowes'
third full length. 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.



