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When the world came to a halt, Jim Ward couldn�t stop moving. He�d just released a reunion album, Trust the River, as the frontman of Sparta when the pandemic hit, and as tour dates dried up, Ward returned to the studio. A year later, he debuted his raucous solo record Daggers and now he�s offering up yet another Sparta album to the world.�

The resulting collection of songs were entirely written on keys in what Ward considers an effort to stretch musical muscles he wouldn�t otherwise have had the expanse of time to indulge in. Boldly self-titled some 20-odd years into Sparta�s career, the album serves as a kind of reintroduction to the band, what Ward calls �a fresh slate.��

He recorded the song at Red Bull Studios in Santa Monica, where for the first time in his long career, Ward had a state of the art recording space to himself, and an engineer able to help him enact his vision. The rest of the album was self-produced at Ward�s El Paso studio, Crowded Heart.�