 | Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red...
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| Ranking: #175 for 2006 | |
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| 0.0 | Jom STAFF | December 25th 06 |
I absolutely agree with the almost-universal assessment that the Red Sparowes provide music that can be construed as somewhat of a gateway for getting both "post-rock fans into metal and metal fans into post-rock." Yes, the band with the longest song titles ever returned in 2006 with an exemplary release in Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun. While the album's themes and allusions pertain to Communist China - simply examine the album opener's first few words in its title ("The Great Leap Forward...", a plan instituted by Chairman Mao Zedong in the 1950s to modernize a struggling China's economy) - but one will notice that these references percolate throughout the album, right down to the slaughter of the sparrows and the rise of the locusts, which destroyed China's crops and triggered a devastating famine, leading to the deaths of approximately 30,000,000 Chinese. All the expected post-rock characteristics are here, from the brilliant crescendos, to the intricate, thickly-layered guitar passages, to the fantastic melody - but these characteristics are intensely vivid, and especially due to the historical storyline that complements the metal-tinged post-rock music that the Red Sparowes have perfected, this album is simply phenomenal and my album of the year for 2006.
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| 2.5 average | TAJ | February 12th 15 |
I like the tracks individually, but as an album, I feel it doesn't quite work. It gets a little drony, and in a way, still.
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| 3.5 great | RevengeSoldier | June 15th 09 |
The Red Sparowes don't play music that can topple mountains, they play music that let's you fly above them...
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| 4.5 superb | EleventhHour | September 24th 08 |
With a sinewy, graceful, yet heavy attack, the Red Sparowes capture post-rock at it's best.
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| 2.5 average | IlNotta | November 10th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | vdop | October 15th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | P0laris | November 8th 18 |
| 1.5 very poor | bbgames | October 12th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Yep321 | July 23rd 18 |
| 3.5 great | Tethyan | November 13th 17 |
| 3.0 good | 2ool | February 13th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | November 29th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | Radex | October 23rd 16 |
| 4.5 superb | algo | September 29th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | mzeet | September 27th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | nadryv | March 25th 15 |
| 2.5 average | GibTG | February 15th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | XSWeLL7 | January 8th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | tribszn | December 21st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | N2B3J | August 25th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Fujay | April 20th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | brollin | February 21st 14 |
| 3.5 great | ProfC | December 1st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | GaugeOT | August 15th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Uqnivde | July 30th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | MF79 | July 2nd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | flaffy | March 16th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | March 2nd 13 |
| 3.0 good | ngebe | January 8th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Maldoror | December 28th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tuth | October 29th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | elry2k | April 28th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Warpt | February 16th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Siamois | January 11th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Kaozz16 | December 27th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | svjchtr | December 14th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | joec101 | September 18th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | myubin | September 16th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Japsu | September 12th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | drds89 | September 10th 11 |
| 3.5 great | TY2810 | August 9th 11 |
| 3.5 great | gervin | July 20th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | kadrei | May 15th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | ev0ken | May 4th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Corvus | April 19th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Oddsy | March 9th 11 |
| 3.5 great | 37er00 | February 9th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | shively | December 24th 10 |
| 3.5 great | jmh886 | September 29th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | SadGonzo | September 23rd 10 |
| 4.5 superb | river | August 19th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | August 12th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Padraga | March 22nd 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | FLRTE | March 12th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Photon | February 25th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Hro | February 15th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Markk1 | January 6th 10 |
| 2.5 average | doqtor | December 20th 09 |
| 3.5 great | chaos17 | November 12th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Jens13 | October 10th 09 |
| 3.5 great | ameypv | October 10th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | avestin | October 7th 09 |
| 2.5 average | Skyler | August 16th 09 |
| 3.0 good | Kehl | August 15th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | tomr4 | August 11th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tillius | June 13th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | 1zero | June 5th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Gbhill | April 11th 09 |
| 3.0 good | tsnell | November 27th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | f2f | October 5th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | JAV | August 1st 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Windows | July 26th 08 |
| 4.5 superb | Bhima | July 22nd 08 |
| 3.0 good | natey | April 18th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Vaires | January 5th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sleepy | November 10th 07 |
| 3.5 great | tuk | October 6th 07 |
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