Sparky, humorous electro-art-pop joy throughout as the pioneering veteran Mael brothers Ron and Russell return with a classic 27th studio album, packed with catchy droll, silly, zeitgeisty wit and cinematographic scenes and characters. After Edgar Wright’s Spark Brothers documentary, the last few albums including 2017’s Hippopotamus, and their Annette film score, their popularity has soared back and even beyond breakthrough period in the 1970s. Pick of the pops here include The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte, featuring Cate Blanchett doing a daft dance in the video, Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is, about a baby asking to return to the womb after having a look at the real world (“Mama, I won’t ask any more of you / I can live with a lousy view”), another film-star inspired number, Veronica Lake, another which imagine a famous painting character deciding to leave the frame and Louvre - Mona Lisa’s Packing, the delicious political satire of the nightmarish marching modern classical flavour of We Go Dancing, which imagines Kim Jong-un as a big DJ, the biting put-downs of Not That Well-Defined, and the bittersweet, beautifully melancholy ambiguous closing track, which could apply to the band, or anything else. Out on Island Records, who originally released their classic album Kimono My House in 1974, to which they have recently returned after a mere 50-year break. Timeless.
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