The Times February 04, 2006 Rock/pop Sparks Hello Young Lovers (GUT) Last time round, on Lil’ Beethoven, Ron and Russell Mael constructed a largely drum-free Sparks, while building up banks of vocal, keyboard and orchestral overdubs into a form of tumultuous Teutonic glam- rock chamber-pop opera. Probably conscious that no one dare match them, Hello… Read More
The best of this week’s new releases Sparks Hello Young Lovers Gut Records, £11.99 Three years since they said “goodbye to the beat” on their extraordinary Lil’ Beethoven album, Californian brothers Ron and Russell Mael have emerged, blinking, from another epic spell in their studio with this equally strange and beautiful disc. Sparks: ‘owe much… Read More
4 and a half stars For their second successive release (see also ‘Lil’ Beethoven’), the Mael brothers, surely the most underrated and enduringly excellent band of the last 35 years – have delivered a collection of songs which share a conceptual unity: Wagnerian operettas fashioned from everyday occurrences. On ‘Hello Young Lovers’, their 20th album,… Read More
“The Mael brothers’ 20th (yes, 20th) album is packed with pop-operatic mischief. Power chords and orchestral excesses are weaved into their funny ha-ha, funny-peculiar electropop. it’s an overloaded effort, and as such difficult, but it’s suffused with an invigorating sense of crackpot creativity.” – 4 stars
12 Feb, Glasgow Carling Academy doors at 19.30, on stage 20.15 13 Feb, Gateshead Sage, doors 19.30, on stage 20.00 15 Feb, Salford Lowry, doors 19.30, on stage 20.00 16 Feb, Leicester De Montfort Hall, doors 19.00, on stage 20.00 18 Feb, London Forum, doors 19.00, on stage 19.40 20 Feb, Hamburg Fabrik, doors 20.00,… Read More
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as advised previously: Please note the first single to be released from Hello Young Lovers will be Perfume – NOT Dick Around as previously advised. The single will be released first on February 13th in Britain The B sides will be the original version of (Baby Baby) Can I Invade Your Country and the Clor… Read More