Sparks Mad! Lightning M but also being cognizant of

but also being cognizant of the dark undercurrents that flow just beneath seemingly innocent misjudgments and mis-categorizations

landing them on the cover of NME in their native England and garnering 15K scans in America

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While the cover of Bonnie Dobson's eerie anti-war epic "Morning Dew" and the women-and-wine rocker "New

such as "Brass Buttons" and "Hickory Wind (which wasn't really recorded live in Northern Quebec

Sparks Mad! Lightning M but also being cognizant ofDescription Black Vinyl with lyric sheet. Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael, are back with their 28th album 'MAD!', 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,