No Matter What Happens (Everything's Fine)

"On April 6, instrumental post-hardcore supergroup Red Sparowes will issue 'The Fear Is Excruciating, but Therein Lies the Answer,' which, you probably could've guessed from the name, is a concept record. And boy, is it a deep one.

'The concept for this record basically centers around the human need to find patterns or meaning when there may not be one,' explains bassist Greg Burns, a former member of hardcore legends Jasta 14; Red Sparowes also feature Isis guitarist Bryant Clifford Meyer and Emma Ruth Rundle of the Nocturnes. 'One example we use is, there was this mass German bombing during World War II that was completely random. No pattern to it. The U.S. spent all this money to predict where they would bomb next. They thought they'd cracked the code, but there was no pattern.'

The album also addresses the group think mentality of doomsday cults. 'One song's about these groups who're finding these end of the world days that come and go, and the world's still there and this idea of always being able to change and alter one's perception of that meaning,' he explains. 'So, if there are all these signs pointing to this day being the end of the world, and if that day comes and goes, instead of a cult saying, "We were wrong. We screwed up," they'd say, "God recognized what we were doing and changed the day." People always change things to suit their own meaning. We change our lives to make sense around these perceived truths.'"

-- Chris Harris, on a musical group that's getting a grip on cultism - The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Girls are two others inspired by it - while the rest of you continue carrying on in this manner, denying your behavior (like he's talking about someone else), thinking it's merely Noisecreep.