Downsizing is usually not the case for bands. But songwriter Joshua Hanson has cut the size of his band Yellow Red Sparks by a third.
The band began in Orange County, CA., as a folk rock trio with its first release A Play to End All Plays in 2012. Now Hanson, paired only with bassist and singer Sara Lynn Nishikawa, can more directly get out his tuneful, personal songs of ache and mystery that won him the International Songwriting Competition earlier this year.
Drummer Darren Goldstein still seems to be around, though, as when his military beat kicks off “Violet,” the track that The Vinyl District is pleased to premiere right here.
The typically melodic track about the lure of a woman after two decades leads to the chorus, “I’ve known Violet 20 odd years, And she haunts me now.” It’s the penultimate track from the new six-song Yellow Red Sparks EP, “New Fangs Old Pangs,” due out October 16 on that similarly downsized format, the EP.
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