Name: Sparta
Brand: Sparta

Tax rate EU

Default:19

Supplier EU

The Orchard/SPV (Membran)

Total Cap

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Discogs ID

Limited edition

Colour

Format Music EU

Extended format

Extended format: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Download code

Download code: No

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Release date

2023-05-26

Format multiplier

Catalogue number

DAV333

UPC / Barcode

821826034419

2022-11-04

DA262

821826034402

Artist

Sparta

Label EU

Dine Alone Music Inc.

Genre EU

Rock-Pop

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There’s no question about whether it’s the profiles of Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López that were biggest to emerge out of seminal El Paso post-hardcore band At the Drive-In. Partly, that’s down to the pair’s flamboyance—both musical and in terms of stage presence—but also in large part because of their work together with The Mars Volta over the years after the dissolution of their first band. And while they don’t not deserve all that attention, you have to feel slightly for Jim Ward, who certainly made vital contributions to that band’s output in those early years. He founded Sparta after At the Drive-In called it quits (the first time, in 2001), but after three albums—not to mention one of the best covers of Jawbreaker’s “Kiss the Bottle”—the band kind of just faded away without fanfare after the release of 2006’s third LP, Threes. It took 14 years for Sparta, in somewhat altered form, to return with 2020’s fourth album Trust the River, but they’re already back again with its follow-up.&nbsp;And although now just a two-piece comprised of Ward and bassist Matt Miller, Sparta is very much a full-band album.

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