Red Sparowes

Add Date: March 23

Artist: Red Sparowes

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

Label: Sargent House

Genre: Post-Rock, Experimental

Comments: After two years of having a weekly radio show, I've learned to really hate super long album names. It's no longer cute to see someone decide that their album should be the grocery list for a family of five, it's simply a pathetic attempt at humor that forces me to scrunch up my hand to write it in our playlist sheet.

Still, at least Red Sparowes had the dignity to make their long album title vaguely useful. I mean, look at it. You don't even have to listen to the music to know whether you're going to like this or not. I don't really mean that as an attack on the band, as I know there are tons of people who exclusively listen to albums that sound like a moves out of fighting game featuring famous psychologists, and hell, even I have times where I really dig stuff that people nerdier than me consider to be MIND EXPANDING. But let's be clear, this is not very accessible music. There's no clear WINNER song, just the general post-rock patterns of build up/technical rock out/weather channel local radar denouement. Ironically, for being the most dogmatic to this pattern, "A Hail of Bombs" is probably the best track in the album.