Sparks have shared “Veronica Lake,” the second observe from their vastly anticipated twenty sixth studio album, The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte, due Friday, May 26 by way of Island Records. You can examine the observe out under.
This musical account of the American movie actress Veronica Lake, and her peek-a-boo hair, as soon as once more shows Sparks’ seemingly ceaseless capacity to craft full, intricately detailed tales inside good three-minute pop masterpieces.
The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte marks Sparks’ first launch on the venerable Island Records label in shut to 5 a long time, following such classics as 1974’s landmark Okimono My House, highlighted after all by the indelible hit single “This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us.” The new album is described by Ron and Russell Mael as a report that’s “as bold and uncompromising as anything we did back then or, for that matter, anytime throughout our career.”
Prior to “Veronica Lake,” beforehand shared the album title observe alongside a video starring Cate Blanchett. The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte additionally contains such immediately intriguing new musical vignettes as “Mona Lisa’s Packing, Leaving Late Tonight” and “Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is.” Both characteristically timeless and unequivocally fashionable, The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte as soon as once more affirms that, after greater than a half century making such masterpieces, Sparks stay inimitable, ingenious and, as ever, totally certainly one of a sort.
Sparks will have fun The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte and rather more with an in depth world tour that sees the band enjoying among the greatest venues of their unimaginable profession, with highlights together with a pair of sold-out headline reveals at London’s historic Royal Albert Hall (May 29 and 30) and the largest headline present of Sparks’ greater than fifty-year profession, going down on July 16 on the world well-known Hollywood Bowl of their beloved hometown of Los Angeles. New reveals in Nimes, Marseille and Tokyo have been added to the tour.
Pre-order The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte.
SPARKS TOUR 2023:
MAY
23 – Oxford, UK – New Theatre Oxford
24 – Liverpool, UK – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
26 – Glasgow, UK – SEC Armadillo
27 – Manchester, UK – Bridgewater Hall
29 – London, UK – Royal Albert Hall
30 – London, UK – Royal Albert Hall
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
30 – Washington, DC, USA – Lincoln Theatre
JULY
1 – Boston, MA, USA – The Wilbur
3 – Toronto, ON, Canada – Danforth Music Hall
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
12 – Dallas, TX, USA – Texas Theatre
13 – Austin, TX, USA – ACL Live on 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