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    SPARKS

    Apr 16, 2020 3 minutes
    By Jason Anderson

    A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip BMG

    9/10

    AFTER spending half a century pursuing and executing some of the most outlandish and original ideas ever concocted in the history of American popular music, Sparks ought to have run out of inspiration or energy by now. Surely a following as fervent and loyal as theirs would forgive Ron and Russell Mael if they decided to phone it in. As two distinguished septuagenarians who’ve already given us pleasures as distinct, their delectably wry 2006 concept album about modern romance, and , the genre-hopping musical fantasia they crafted in 2009 for Swedish radio.

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