Sparks - Mad!Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael, are back with their 28th album 'MAD!' on May 23rd 2025, their first release with Transgressive Records. Most acts, by their seventh decade in the biz, would have slowed to a crawl, creakily playing their past hits on the heritage circuit and releasing nothing more than the occasional Greatest Hits collection. This is not the case for Sparks, who have triumphantly returned yet again, proving their resilience and

'Eponymous' gives the listener a sense of the band's change from folk-rock to rock

At the other end of the spectrum

a song was written and recorded

mesmerizing arabesque string orchestras

that effect is amplified on ‘Nightmares’

he confessed that it was highly unlikely (

produced by Patrick Maley at Yo-Yo Studio

Inner sleeve with Metal Bird flight instructions

and determined to wrestle not only with addiction

Bon Iver) in 2004

Humming is a beatless autumnal drift fashioned from delicate keyboard textures and rich soaring guitar tones

Allen Ravenstine