Along the Evrotas River

Now that I've been prompted to serve up some De Facto, I guess I should stay the course. That means giving up some Sparta.

Sparta is an alternative rock/post-hardcore band formed in El Paso, Texas in 2001, after At the Drive-In announced their indefinite hiatus. The band originally consisted of Jim Ward -vocals, Paul Hinojos - guitar & Tony Hajjar - drums...all former members of At the Drive-In.

After a brief stint with Erick Sanger on bass, the three recruited Matt Miller, an El Paso native & then-bassist for the band Belknap to become the band's permanent bassist. Within a year, the punk-inspired quartet had a deal with DreamWorks. They released their debut EP Austere in early 2002. Five months later Sparta issued their first full-length Wiretap Scars. The band returned two years later with the ambitious second album, Porcelain released on Geffen Records.

After that there were more line-up changes, they weren’t the remains of ATDI anymore, & I no longer care.

Sparta - Austere, DreamWorks Records 0044-50844-7, 2002.
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Side One -
Mye
Cataract

Side Two -
Vacant Skies
Echodyne Harmonic (Demix)

Sparta - Wiretap Scars, DreamWorks Records 0044-50366-2, 2002.

Cut Your Ribbon
Air
Mye
Collapse
Sans Cosm
Light Burns Clear
Cataract
Red Alibi
RX Coup
Glasshouse Tarot
Assemble the Empire

Sparta - Porcelain, Geffen Records B0002818-02, 2004.

Guns of Memorial Park
Hiss the Villian
While Oceana Sleeps
La Cerca
Breaking the Broken
Lines in Sand
End Moraine
Death in the Family
Syncope
Tensioning
Travel by Bloodline
P.O.M.E.
From Now to Never
Splinters
Farewell Ruins
Bombs & Us

Enjoy,
NØ