Red Sparowes
Aphorisms
Sargent House (2008)
When Red Sparowes released At the Soundless Dawn, I began to better appreciate instrumental music. The sound that the band has made for themselves incorporates pedal steel guitar, wandering movements, and entrancing song developments. After recording the band's second full-length Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun guitarist Josh Graham, also of Neurosis, left the band to work on another musical endeavor. Still, current members of the band work with or have worked with prominent groups such as Isis, Angel Hair, Made Out of Babies, Halifax Pier, and The VSS. The Aphorisms digital EP marks Red Sparowes's first release within the last two years. It exhibits newer, subtle characteristics of the band, most of which are readily noticeable within the first few seconds of the first track. "We Left the Apes to Rot, but Find the Fang Grows Within," sounds similar to Isis at certain points, which makes sense. Bryant Clifford Meyer, keyboardist/guitarist/backup vocalist of Isis, has been playing in the Red Sparowes since they formed in 2003. The pedal steel guitar is hard to pick out on this track. Prominent slides of the pedal steel can be heard throughout the band's other work; here, it seems as though … Read more
Hope and Suicide
Hope and Suicide
SuperNova (2008)
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Mötley Crüe
Saints of Los Angeles
Eleven Seven (2008)
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Perth Express
Harrowed and Wealdstone
Vendetta (2008)
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