A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip

Five decades into their career Sparks remain as untouchable as ever

On his fifth album, Perfume Genius turns away from ‘big US rock’ to create something altogether more intimate, pop veterans Sparks return with a record as multi-faceted as it is innovative, and Moses Sumney offers vulnerable introspection

"Our inconsistency is our consistency/our insincerity is our sincerity," Russel Mael sings at one point on A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip.

Never chartbusters, Sparks' 2017 album Hippopotamus unexpectedly debuted in the UK Top 10, evidence that innovative, operatic glam never goe...

“All that we’ve done / We’ve lost / We’ve won,” sings Russell Mael on the opening track on the twenty-fourth Sparks

Starting in the very early 1970s, Los Angeles sibling duo Sparks—vocalist Russell Mael and keyboardist Ron Mael—have almost always dominated as a...

Album Reviews: Sparks - A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip

Proving there is life during lockdown, singer-songwriter-producer and all-round pop whirlwind Charli XCX has written, recorded and released an entire quarantine album in just six weeks.

Theatrical, tongue-in-cheek art-pop which is melodically potent

Arch rhymes and secreted emotion from veteran LA ironists