Sparta: Wiretap Scars [DINE ALONE]

Why you'll love it

Dine Alone gave Wiretap Scars its first official vinyl pressing for the album's 20th anniversary in 2023. It is the debut Sparta made right after At The Drive-In split, with "Cut Your Ribbon" leading the charge.

This edition

• First official vinyl pressing
• 20th anniversary reissue
• 12 tracks across two sides

About the album

When At The Drive-In broke apart in 2001, Jim Ward and his bandmates went straight back to work, and Wiretap Scars arrived on DreamWorks the following year. "Cut Your Ribbon" carried them onto late-night TV; the rest of the album keeps that same restless, wiry energy, all sharp guitars and big, urgent choruses.

Twenty years later the band toured the record across North America with Thursday, Moneen and Geoff Rickly along for select dates. This LP finally gives the album the format it always deserved.

Also at Kops: Porcelain (2LP, iridescent vinyl) · Sparta (white vinyl, alternate cover) · Moneen: The Red Tree · the Dine Alone x Kops takeover · more punk

Tracklist

Listen

On Dine Alone Records (cat# DAV354), a reissue of the 2002 album.