PROCEED WITH CAUTION THIS ALBUM WILL BLOW YOUR MIND.
"Great Things Come In Threes"
There are many things an album can give the listener.
Threes is an album that gives the biggest one of them all. A triumphant return to a music scene that shunned them. The concept of Threes is to get over the bumps & holes that are laid out on the road leading to that place you've always wanted to go.These lyrics are clearly dedicated to the aesthetic consciousness that is life and coping with it, and in specifics rising above you'r greatest mistakes then throwing it in the faces of the nay sayers.
To start the album hands you a multitude of dark gut wrenching riffs, that would please any metal head and at the finish it ends with a clam note-to-self scenario thats sounds like a hidden track to
Dark Side of the Moon. Its a more mature sound than their early works like,
Breaking the Broken or Cut your ribbon. Further more the vocals and use of other instruments are placed together in complex fashion, but is simple to hear. This is a big step artisticaly that Sparta has taken, making an album built around grief, then rising to a much more stabilized level.
"I walked the straightest line, I finished it all in time but no it wasn't enough"
(from left)Keeley Davis, Jim Ward, Matt Miller, Tony Hajjar
With solid tracks like
Taking Back Control and subtle one's like
Untreatable Disease makes this album a masterpiece. Taking a different approach (in my opinion a better one) to making a complex album than the Mars Volta and At The Drive-in, I find this album very significant not in just the set of music they play, but Rock music in general. Sparta has really shown me how to make a perfect album.
Sparta = Underdogs of 2007
Also be sure to check out
Eme Nakia the short film that is based off of Drummer Tony Hajjar's years as a kid after his family fled from Lebanon's cival war and relocated to the United States (thank god he came here).
5/5
To hear sparta and their new album click here If link doesn't work a last resort is myspace