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Sparks - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte (2023)

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 27 May 2023 21:54:17

Sparks new album, 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte', is a modern masterpiece. For the uninitiated, Sparks are an art pop duo comprised of brothers Ron and Russell Mael. Their influence on pop music cannot be overstated, having inspired everyone from Queen to Bjork. In Edgar Wright's Sparks documentary, super-producer Jack Antonoff states, "all pop music is re-arranged Sparks." 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' marks Sparks' first release on the venerable Island Records label in close to five decades, following such classics as 1974's landmark Kimono 'My House', highlighted of course by the indelible hit single 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us'. The album includes such instantly intriguing new musical vignettes as 'Mona Lisa's Packing, Leaving Late Tonight' and 'Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is', songs which once again display Sparks' seemingly ceaseless ability to craft complete, intricately detailed stories within perfect three-and-a-half minute pop masterpieces. Both characteristically timeless and unequivocally modern, 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' once again affirms that, after more than a half century making such masterpieces, Sparks remain inimitable, ingenious and, as ever, utterly one of a kind. 2023 will see Sparks play two sold out shows at Royal Albert Hall and at festivals around the world.

Since the late 2010s, Sparks have been on an upswing. With 2017's Hippopotamus and 2020's A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip in particular, they proved their hooks and lyrics were as sharp as ever, and with the 2021 releases of Edgar Wright's documentary The Sparks Brothers and Annette, the award-winning film Ron and Russell Mael made with director Leos Carax, this renewed attention reached a crescendo. That these films brought the long-standing, singular brilliance of Sparks' music to a wider audience were films is noteworthy, especially since there's something distinctly cinematic about the sounds and storytelling of The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte. The respect for movie magic the Mael brothers have had since growing up in Los Angeles can be felt throughout: "The Mona Lisa's Packing, Leaving Late" surrounds its tale of La Gioconda – one of several mysterious women with hidden depths of feeling on Latte – with layers of brass, guitars, and vocals arranged with the flash of a Busby Berkeley musical number. "You Were Meant for Me" is a buzzy, synth pop rom-com that hinges on a sweater getting caught on a shopping cart, and the standout "Take Me for a Ride" is a symphonic rock thriller that even offers a shocking twist near the end. The album harks back to A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip's trenchant social commentary with "The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte," which ponders the mysteries of everyday suffering in a breezy yet deep fashion that's quintessentially Sparks. More often, though, the Mael brothers address the human condition in more timeless terms – on the sprightly power pop of "Nothing Is as Good as They Say It Is," a newborn baby wants to go back to the womb, or at least to the South of France – or with a fascinatingly anachronistic mix of sounds, slang, and pop culture references. Another highlight, "Veronica Lake," uses rushing electronics to evoke a relentless assembly line as it muses on how the star sacrificed her famous peekaboo hairdo to protect the women sporting similar styles while working in World War II factories. On "We Go Dancing," squalling brass and Russell Mael's mannered vocals paint a picture of powdered wig-sporting aristocrats cutting a rug to the sounds of a DJ who outshines Skrillex or Diplo. The fresh ways Sparks touch on all of this history, musical and otherwise, makes it all the more fitting that they released this album on Island, the label that issued their classic Kimono My House. In its own way, The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte is also classic Sparks. Only Ron and Russell Mael could have made this album, and while they've always done what they needed and wanted to do as artists, it's extra satisfying that this peak in their popularity coincides with music this vibrantly engaging.

~ Heather Phares, All Music

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Track List:

01. The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte [2:57]
02. Veronica Lake [3:03]
03. Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is [3:14]
04. Escalator [2:58]
05. The Mona Lisa's Packing, Leaving Late Tonight [3:34]
06. You Meant For Me [4:17]
07. Not That Well-Defined [3:30]
08. We Go Dancing [3:08]
09. When You Leave [4:19]
10. Take Me For A Ride [4:09]
11. It's Sunny Today [2:39]
12. A Love Story [3:18]
13. It Doesn't Have To Be That Way [3:41]
14. Gee, That Was Fun [3:03]

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