Sparks - MADDER! *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 3rd October 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

After conquering the world with their 28th studio album MAD!, the eternallycreative Ron and Russell Mael are releasing the first EP of their illustrious
career."Not wanting the Mad!ness to end and buoyed by the phenomenal
reaction to MAD!, we made a hasty but intense retreat to the studio to record
a Sparks first: an EP," say the band
"MADDER!, a four-song companion piece to the album, is for everyone who isn't yet
MAD! enough. We hope these new songs will take you to an even MADDER! place."
The first single from the MADDER! EP, released on September 2, will be 'Porcupine', a
song of a guy's fascination with a woman who possesses, shall we say, a prickly
personality, all to a verse with a highly infectious organ riff that yields to heavy guitars
in the choruses. "She's a porcupine," Russell croons---a metaphor or something more
troubling?
The other tracks on the EP are 'Fantasize', 'Mess Up' and 'They', and the new material
is in the pioneering spirit of the MAD! album, which was greeted with rave reviews,
including five-star ratings from Record Collector ("...further proof of genius") and the
Daily Telegraph ("The gold standard for left field pop").

Tracks: Porcupine / Fantasize / Mess Up / They

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