Sparing

Photo Cred 📸: @kaylaguilliams

This week's NEW Music Monday sees the return of an old NJAP favorite, Sparing. Their latest single, brings all the melody, harmony and sing-a-longs that we've come to know and love from the band, while heavily saturated with stanzas dropping with unknown futures. 

On "Static at the End", Sparing opine on this uncertain future for themselves with splattered ink lyricism careening over infectiously delicious riffs, punctuated with rattling bass-lines and drums that could scale buildings. With echoes of mid aughts emo gilding the soaring vocals and husky shouts to round out an energetic but melancholy piece of tightly executed pop-punk, the song paints the image that a lot has changed for Zach Godwin, Sparing's primary creative wellspring. The approaching dawn of fatherhood as well as the regular tumult that faces life as a musician, the lyrics in "Static at the End" bring catchy yet stark choruses, asking whether it is best to soldier on or finally lay it all to rest. 

Their latest can certainly be touted as their greatest even as a return to form, and while the bands future may be uncertain, here at NJAP we will certainly look forward to what the band may bring us next.

Checkout their new single here: Sparing

Writer : @letsgetpivotal

Editor : @just_reidz

07/24/23