Forward of their new album, MAD!, Ron and Russell Mael have returned with a brand new Sparks track, “Drowned in a Sea of Tears,” and the announcement of 2025 US tour dates.
The dates will happen in September 2025, after the arrival of MAD! on Might twenty third, starting with a present in Atlanta on September fifth. From there, the Mael brothers will carry out in Philadelphia, Boston, Brooklyn, Toronto, Seattle, San Francisco, and extra cities earlier than wrapping with a present on the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on September thirtieth.
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Tickets for the reveals will go on sale through Ticketmaster on Friday, April eleventh at 10:00 a.m. native time.
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The one, “Downed in a Sea of Tears” is a tightly-packaged breakup pop track with a minor, brooding really feel, within the fashion of outsider pop that Sparks helped pioneer. Within the verses, the narrator displays on a relationship gone bitter, lamenting on the catchy choruses that they may not assist their former lover ease their fears.
The track arrived together with a music video that includes each Mael brothers in a variety of surreal scenes, culminating with the narrator’s lover trapped in a automotive filling with water. Watch the video and hearken to the only under.
MAD! might be Sparks’ twenty sixth studio album. Earlier this 12 months, the brothers unveiled the singles “Do Issues My Personal Means” and “JanSport Backpack.” Previous to their US dates, they are going to carry out in Japan and throughout Europe in June and July.
In the meantime, the band was just lately disparaged by Morrissey, who accused them of being “headless Palisades savages who threw their previous mates into sizzling molten lava for horny kicks.”
Sparks 2025 Tour Dates:
06/08 – Kyoto, JP @ ROHM Theatre
06/10 – Osaka, JP @ Zepp Namba
06/12 – Tokyo, JP @ EX Theater
06/13 – Tokyo, JP @ EX Theater
06/18 – London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
06/19 – London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
06/21 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Apollo
06/22 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Apollo
06/24 – Glasgow, UK @ Royal Live performance Corridor
06/26 – Haarlem, NL @ PHIL Haarlem
06/28 – Brussels, BE @ Cirque Royal
06/30 – Paris, FR @ La Salle Pleyel
07/01 – Cologne, DE @ Reside Music Corridor
07/03 – Copenhagen, DK @ The Koncerthuset
07/04 – Stockholm, SE @ Grona Lund Tivoli
07/06 – Berlin, DE @ Uber Eats
07/08 – Milan, IT @ Teatro degli Arcimboldi
07/12 – Bilbao, ES @ Bilbao BBK
07/15 – Dublin, IE @ Nationwide Stadium
07/16 – Dublin, IE @ Nationwide Stadium
07/18 – Edinburgh, UK @ Edinburgh Playhouse
07/19 – Wolverhampton, UK @ The Halls
09/05 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
09/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ Keswick Theatre
09/09 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre
09/11 – Boston, MA @ Berklee Efficiency Heart
09/12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre
09/14 – Columbus, OH @ The Athenaeum Theatre
09/15 – Cleveland, OH @ TempleLive at Cleveland Masonic
09/17 – Toronto, CA @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
09/20 – St. Paul, MN @ Fitzgerald Theater
09/23 – Vancouver, CA @ Vogue Theatre
09/24 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
09/26 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Corridor
09/27 – San Francisco, CA @ Golden Gate Theatre
09/29 – El Cajon, CA @ The Magnolia
09/30 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre