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 referred to 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 in the present day’s new single, “JanSport Backpack,” a unusual pop observe about fading love as remembered via a devoted, however worn-down, backpack. Take heed to that observe beneath.
This summer time, Sparks will hit the highway for a correct tour in help 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 dwell exhibits is at present 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 Information for the reason that Nineteen Seventies. Mad!, in flip, is the band’s first LP for Transgressive.
Revisit Pitchfork’s “Trend Upsetters: 10 Essential Sparks Songs.”
All merchandise featured on Pitchfork are independently chosen by our editors. Nonetheless, while you purchase one thing via our retail hyperlinks, we might earn an affiliate fee.
Mad!:
01 Do Issues My Personal Manner
02 JanSport Backpack
03 Hit Me, Child
04 Working Up a Tab on the Lodge for the Fab
05 My Devotion
06 Don’t Canine It
07 In Daylight
08 I-405 Guidelines
09 A Lengthy Crimson Mild
10 Drowned in a Sea of Tears
11 A Little Little bit of Mild 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
