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Equal Vision Records and Sparta are excited to announce the Friday, May 29 release of Cut A Silhouette, the forthcoming album from the celebrated El Paso, TX-based alt-rock band. 

Produced, engineered and recorded in seven days at Magpie Cage Recording Studio by the iconic J. Robbins, Cut A Silhouette is a collision of past and present. It builds off Sparta’s legacy but equally continues the evolution of a band that has never rested on its laurels. Written in hotel rooms, practice spaces, studios and soundchecks over the course of a year, Cut A Silhouette reveals frontman Jim Ward’s rediscovery of his love for music. 

“This is a love record,” Ward happily declares. “I want it to leave an impression, and at this point in my career, that's what I yearn for. I'm working so hard to make something meaningful to me, and I really want people to get a chance to feel it as well.” Watch the music video for the album’s first single, “Crater,” a song co-written with Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance, L.S. Dunes) here

It all started with John Candy. Some 31 years after the comedian’s death, Jim Ward was watching a documentary about him, and in it Macaulay Culkin — who had starred in a number of films with the late actor — said something that really stuck with the musician. So much so, in fact, that, after months of pondering and overthinking what Sparta’s sixth full-length album would be named, Ward decided that those very words—“cut a silhouette”—should be the title.  

“He said that when he met John Candy, he just entered your brain and cut a silhouette,” says Ward. “Like, he just left an impression is the way I see it. And when I heard him say that, I was like ‘Oh! That’s what I want this record to be.’ I want it to leave an impression.”

Tracklisting
Split Lip
Crater
Mouthbreather
Daydream
See You Soon
Everything You Say
Without Your Hands
Midnights
Mystery Of Missing
Glimmer

NOTES REGARDING VINYL PRESSING: The images used are artist mock ups that are provided to the vinyl plant to match as closely as possible. Due to the manual nature of creating these types of vinyl, the end product may vary from the images used here.