Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks share new single from upcoming album, MAD!, set for launch in Could.
JanSport Backpack, is the second observe from the brand new album, which shall be launched on 23 Could through Transgressive Data.
Ever the masters of the musical vignette, JanSport Backpack is a bittersweet pop tune that portrays a fading love in Sparks’ inimitable trend, with the backpack present as a tragic reminder of a relationship on the rocks.
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MAD!, the band’s twenty eighth studio album, finds the art-pop duo analyzing cultural phenomena corresponding to branded backpacks, tattoos, performative devotion (whether or not to a God, a lover, a celeb or a sports activities group), the hegemony of banter, and the rise of influencers. The satire is rarely on-the-nose, at all times retaining sufficient ambiguity for the listener to fill within the blanks. And the exquisitely uncommon lexicon and cultural references leap out on each pay attention.
Musically there are nods to New Wave, Synth-pop, Artwork Rock and Digital Opera – all genres Sparks had arms in pioneering, or straight-up invented. Finally, nevertheless, MAD! is a contemporary report, which belongs in, and speaks to, the fashionable world.
The album opens with the tune Do Issues My Personal Method, a bit of sometimes forward-facing progressive pop which was the album’s lead single. Nevertheless it additionally features as one thing of a manifesto for the Maels themselves. As a result of Sparks are a band who’ve at all times, at all times finished issues their very own method.
MAD! Tracklisting
Do Issues My Personal Method
JanSport Backpack
Hit Me, Child
Working Up A Tab At The Resort For The Fab
My Devotion
Don’t Canine It
In Daylight
I-405 Guidelines
A Lengthy Crimson Gentle
Drowned In A Sea Of Tears
A Little Bit Of Gentle Banter
Lord Have Mercy
MAD! bodily codecs embrace: CD, Cassette, Black vinyl LP, Lenticular gatefold sleeve with blue vinyl LP and Deluxe triple gatefold version with pink vinyl LP and CD (unique to retailer.allsparks.com)
After seven many years making music collectively Sparks proceed to interrupt new floor. On their 2025 tour, the primary leg will start on 8 June in Japan and finish on 8 July in Italy.
Though Russell carried out in Italy as soon as as a part of a Sgt Pepper anniversary live performance and each brothers performed there with FFS, this would be the first-ever Italian Sparks gig. The tour is already the band’s quickest promoting thus far – with extra worldwide dates to be introduced quickly as a consequence of demand.
SPARKS MAD! UK TOUR DATES:
June 2025
18 – Eventim Apollo, London
19 – Eventim Apollo, London
21 – O2 Apollo, Manchester
22 – O2 Apollo, Manchester
24 – Royal Live performance Corridor, Glasgow
A full listing of dates and tickets can be found right here.
MAD! is launched on 23 Could and is accessible for preorder now, click on right here.
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