SPARKS - Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is (Radio Date: 15-05-2023)

SPARKS

"NOTHING IS AS GOOD AS THEY SAY IT IS"
IL NUOVO SINGOLO DISPONIBILE ORA

DALL'ALBUM

THE GIRL IS CRYING IN HER LATTE

DISPONIBILE DAL 26 MAGGIO

VIA ISLAND RECORDS

Bona fide masterpiece â˜…â˜…â˜…â˜…â˜… - Record Collector - Album of the Month
Outstanding â˜…â˜…â˜…â˜… - Mojo
Their victory lap! Uncut
Urgent and defiant – The Wire
Piquant and literate... like a short walk around an art gallery... Clash Magazine
A genuinely outstanding album, with zero laurels rested â˜…â˜…â˜…â˜…â˜… – Buzz Magazine
An album alive with enough inventive energy to put bands a third of their age to shame – Classic Rock
They remain as witty, sharp and brilliant as ever â˜…â˜…â˜…â˜… - RetroPop Magazine
A genre hopping mission statement from a band sounding more vital than ever – Narc
Still so incredibly vital – Classic Pop

Un bambino di 22 ore che chiede di essere riammesso nel grembo materno è il protagonista dell'orecchiabile punk-pop di "Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is", terzo singolo estratto dal 26° album in studio di Sparks in uscita il 26 maggio su Island Records.

PRE-ORDINA/PRE-SALVA THE GIRL IS CRYING IN HER LATTE DISPONIBILE IN FORMATO CD, CASSETTA, VINILE, VINILE CHIARO E PICTURE DISC

"The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte" segna la prima pubblicazione di Sparks con la venerabile etichetta Island Records in quasi cinque decenni, dopo classici come "Kimono My House" del 1974, evidenziati ovviamente dal memorabile singolo "This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us". Il nuovo album è descritto da Ron e Russell Mael come un disco "audace e intransigente come qualsiasi cosa abbiamo fatto allora o, per quanto riguarda la nostra carriera, in qualsiasi momento".

Gli Sparks hanno già condviso i singoli "Veronica Lake" e la title track dell'album "The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte" con un video che vede come protagonista Cate Blanchett. The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte include anche nuove vignette musicali immediatamente intriganti come "Mona Lisa's Packing, Leaving Late Tonight" e "A Love Story". Caratteristicamente senza tempo e al tempo stesso inequivocabilmente moderno, The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte afferma ancora una volta che, dopo oltre mezzo secolo di produzione di tali capolavori, gli Sparks rimangono inimitabili, geniali e, come sempre, assolutamente unici nel loro genere.

Gli Sparks celebreranno The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte e molto altro ancora con un ampio tour mondiale che vedrà la band esibirsi in alcuni dei luoghi più importanti della loro incredibile carriera, con momenti salienti tra cui un paio di spettacoli da headliner sold-out alla storica Royal Albert Hall di Londra (29 e 30 maggio), esibizioni a festival come 3xPrimavera e a Glastonbury e il più grande spettacolo da headliner degli oltre cinquant'anni di carriera degli Sparks, che si terrà il 16 luglio al famoso Hollywood Bowl nella loro amata città natale, Los Angeles.

SPARKS TOUR 2023

MAY
23 – Oxford, UK – New Theatre Oxford
24 – Liverpool, UK – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall SOLD OUT
26 – Glasgow, UK – SEC Armadillo
27 – Manchester, UK – Bridgewater Hall SOLD OUT
29 – London, UK – Royal Albert Hall SOLD OUT
30 – London, UK – Royal Albert Hall SOLD OUT

JUNE
2 – Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound Barcelona
4 – Nimes, France – La Paloma
5 – Marseille, France – Espace Julien
8 – Madrid, Spain – Primavera Sound Madrid
10 – Porto, Portugal – Primavera Sound Porto
13 – Paris, France – Le Grand Rex
14 – Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal
16 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Store Vega
18 – Berlin, Germany – Tempodrom
20 – Brussels, Belgium – Cirque Royal
22 – Wolverhampton, UK – The Civic at The Halls
23 – Pilton, UK – Glastonbury
27 – New York, NY, USA – Beacon Theatre
28 – Philadelphia, PA, USA – Keswick Theatre SOLD OUT
30 – Washington, DC, USA – Lincoln Theatre

JULY
1 – Boston, MA, USA – The Wilbur
3 – Toronto, ON, Canada – Danforth Music Hall SOLD OUT
5 – Chicago, IL, USA – Copernicus Center
6 – Milwaukee, WI, USA – Pabst Theater
8 – Kansas City, MO, USA – Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
9 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater SOLD OUT
12 – Dallas, TX, USA – Texas Theatre SOLD OUT
13 – Austin, TX, USA – ACL Live at the Moody Theatre
16 – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Hollywood Bowl †
22 - Tokyo, Japan – duo Music Exchange
24 – Osaka, Japan – Namba Hatch
25 – Tokyo, Japan – Line Cube Shibuya

* Festival Appearance
† w/ Special Guests They Might Be Giants

Per maggiori dettagli allsparks.com/#tour

The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte tracklisting:

1 The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
2 Veronica Lake
3 Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is
4 Escalator
5 The Mona Lisa's Packing, Leaving Late Tonight
6 You Were Meant For Me
7 Not That Well-Defined
8 We Go Dancing
9 When You Leave
10 Take Me For A Ride
11 It's Sunny Today
12 A Love Story
13 It Doesn't Have To Be That Way
14 Gee, That Was Fun

About Sparks
Levels of interest in the work of Sparks are at heights unsurpassed in their more than fifty year career, with the ultimate cult band now centerstage in the full beam of the spotlight.

Most people, with even a passing acquaintance with Sparks, will know the basics by now. How Californian brothers Ron and Russell Mael, both students at UCLA, began making music together in the late Sixties, originally under the name Halfnelson. How their Top Of The Pops debut with “This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us” stunned a generation and nearly scored them a UK #1. How their career moved through many phases, including (but not limited to) art rock, glam, big band swing, electro-disco, new wave and synthpop, taking in collaborations with Todd Rundgren, Les Rita Mitsouko, Tony Visconti, Franz Ferdinand and Giorgio Moroder.

How keyboardist and songwriter Ron’s intricate staccato arrangements combine with the acrobatic vocals in which Russell delivers his brother’s always-on-point lyrics. How Ron’s stillness and stern, intimidating visage contrasts onstage with Russell’s hyperactivity. How their popularity has spiked unpredictably in different territories at different times: Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Japan, and their homeland the United States. And how the influence of “the greatest band you’ve never heard of,” or “your favorite band’s favorite band,” has been recognized by successive generations of artists from Joy Division to Duran Duran to Depeche Mode to Bjork to Beck and beyond. Their influence on music cannot be overstated – as super-producer Jack Antonoff recently declared, “All pop music is re-arranged Sparks.”

Now into their sixth decade of making music, Sparks have never been more relevant, with studio albums Hippopotamus (2017) and A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip (2020) both reaching #7 on the UK Official Albums Chart amidst global acclaim. Released in 2021, the lauded career-spanning documentary film The Sparks Brothers, directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver), brought an awareness of Sparks to parts they previously hadn’t reached.

Sparks’ 2021 film musical Annette, directed by Leos Carax and starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, has been showered with awards, especially in France where the film won three Lumières Awards and five César Awards, including “Best Original Music” for Ron and Russell. In addition, the film’s “So May We Start” was shortlisted for “Best Original Song” at the 94^th Academy Awards. Focus Features have recently announced plans to develop X-Crucior, a new musical epic written by Ron and Russell.