Earlier this week, Sparta released their third album, the appropriately named Threes. I had a chance to speak to frontman Jim Ward about the record last week while they were in Burlington, Vermont. Jim told me about the process of making the record, the departure of guitarist Paul Hinojos who had been playing with Jim since the At the Drive-In days, and even addresses some long-standing questions about Sparta, and last year's At the Drive-In retrospective, This Station Is Non-Operational.

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