Sparks - album out now!

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 new album is described by Ron and Russell Mael as a record that is “as bold and uncompromising as anything we did back then or, for that matter, anytime throughout our career.”

Record Collector Magazine “a late-career masterpiece”

Sparks previously shared the album title track alongside a video starring Cate Blanchett. The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte also 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’. 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.

The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte tracklisting:

1 The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte

2 Veronica Lake

3 Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is

4 Escalator

5 The Mona Lisa's Packing, Leaving Late Tonight

6 You Were Meant For Me

7 Not That Well-Defined

8 We Go Dancing

9 When You Leave

10 Take Me For A Ride

11 It's Sunny Today

12 A Love Story

13 It Doesn't Have To Be That Way

14 Gee, That Was Fun

The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte formats:

LP, Clear LP, Picture Disc, CD, Cassette

Sparks will celebrate The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte and much more with an extensive world tour that sees the band playing some of the biggest venues of their incredible career, with highlights including a pair of sold-out headline shows at London’s historic Royal Albert Hall (May 29 and 30) and the biggest headline show of Sparks’ more than fifty-year career, taking place on July 16 at the world famous Hollywood Bowl in their beloved hometown of Los Angeles. New shows in Nimes, Marseille and Tokyo have been added to the tour:

SPARKS TOUR 2023

MAY

• 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 at 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

* Festival Appearance

† w/ Special Guests They Might Be Giants

For complete details and ticket information, please see allsparks.com/#tour