Aug15 04:08
The new album by the Red Sparrowes appeared on the internet recently. I don’t plan on listening to it, as I can’t even remember their first album (beyond being pretty sure I listened to it). The band has also had a split release with Grails (whom I can’t stand, either). Anyway, as I said, I wasn’t predisposed to like this album.
However …
… I read that the freaking album is a concept record about The Great Leap Forward. Not even just the Great Leap Forward, itself: the album is a meditation on the mass killing of sparrows that ended up causing a huge famine and nearly lead to an ecological collapse when the locust population expanded out of control. Now, I’m thinking to myself that I really, really need to hear this record.
