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INCOMPARABLE, INSCRUTABLE SPARKS DROP LP 26 HINTS
“It’s a disservice to pop music to come out with stuff that isn’t cool.”
RON MAEL
Brothers gonna work it out: Russell (left) and Ron Mael in their LA studio, doing their best not to “besmirch our good name.”
FACT SHEET
Title: TBC Due: 2025
Production:Sparks Songs: TBC The Buzz: “We want to go under the assumption that somebody is hearing Sparks, maybe for the first time. And the number one thing for us is just, are we excited, and motivated to do it? We really want there to be kind of a musical reason for it, and to make it really, really solid.”
Ron Mael
“THERE
ARE so many newer fans that have kind of come our way of late,” says Ron Mael, Zooming immaculately from Los Angeles. “We feel an obligation, which we always do, to keep the quality high. We’re lovers of pop music, and we think it’s a disservice to pop music to come out with stuff that isn’t cool.”