Jim Ward Plans New Solo Album

Jim Ward, lead singer of Sparta, and co-founder of the legendary post-hardcore band At The Drive-In has recently signed to Xtra Mile Records.

His first solo record, entitled ‘Quiet In The Valley, On The Shores The End Begins’, is scheduled to drop in early August.

The album, which has been five years in the making, was recorded in El Paso Texas, with fellow band member Gabe Gonzalez, and is a compilation of three previous EP’s worth of music - 2007’s ‘Quiet’, 2009’s ‘In the Valley, on the Shores’ and 2011’s ‘The End Begins’.

The full tracklisting is:

1. On My Way Back Home
2. Take It Back
3. Mystery Talks
4. Coastlines
5. Easier Said Than Done
6. All That We Lost
7. Broken Songs
8. My Town
9. The Newest One
10. This Love Has Gone Away
11. Lake Travis
12. Waves In Spanish
13. Decades
14. The Beginning Of The End

The first single from the album will be ‘Broken Songs’. Ward will then embark on a UK and European tour later in the year-more details on that to come.