Final month, Sparks shared the brand new tune “Do Things My Own Way” and introduced that they’d quickly be releasing a brand new album known as Mad! Now, brothers Ron and Russell Mael have revealed the main points of their follow-up to 2023’s The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte. The brand new album is out Might 23, through Transgressive, and contains at this time’s new single, “JanSport Backpack,” a unusual pop monitor about fading love as remembered via a trustworthy, however worn-down, backpack. Take heed to that monitor beneath.
This summer time, Sparks will hit the street for a correct tour in assist of the album. After a present on June 8, in Kyoto, Japan, the Mael brothers will carry out live shows in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Sweden, and different international locations. The run of stay reveals is at the moment set to finish on July 8, in Milan, Italy. Discover Sparks’ full checklist of tour dates down beneath.
The Lady Is Crying in Her Latte was a comeback, of kinds, for Sparks, in that it was their first album for Island Data because the Nineteen Seventies. Mad!, in flip, is the band’s first LP for Transgressive.
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Mad!:
01 Do Issues My Personal Approach
02 JanSport Backpack
03 Hit Me, Child
04 Working Up a Tab on the Resort for the Fab
05 My Devotion
06 Don’t Canine It
07 In Daylight
08 I-405 Guidelines
09 A Lengthy Pink Gentle
10 Drowned in a Sea of Tears
11 A Little Little bit of Gentle Banter
12 Lord Have Mercy
Sparks:
06-08 Kyoto, Japan – ROHM Theatre Kyoto
06-10 Osaka, Japan – Zepp Namba
06-12 Tokyo, Japan – EX Theater Roppongi
06-13 Tokyo, Japan – EX Theater Roppongi
06-18 London, England – Eventim Apollo
06-19 London, England – Eventim Apollo
06-21 Manchester, England – O2 Apollo
06-22 Manchester, England – O2 Apollo
06-24 Glasgow, Scotland – Royal Live performance Corridor
06-26 Haarlem, Netherlands – PHIL Haarlem
06-28 Brussels, Belgium – Cirque Royal
06-30 Paris, France – La Salle Pleyel
07-01 Cologne, Germany – Gloria-Theater
07-03 Copenhagen, Denmark – DR Koncerthuset
07-04 Stockholm, Sweden – Gröna Lund Tivoli
07-06 Berlin, Germany – Uber Eats Music Corridor
07-08 Milan, Italy – Teatro Degli Arcimboldi
