Art pop iconoclasts Sparks have announced their 28th studio album, which is titled MAD! and will be out later this year via Transgressive Records. (It’s their first for the label and first since 2023’s The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte.) Details on the album are still to come, but they’ve just released the first single, “Do Things My Own Way.” Ron and Russell Mael say the title has been “Our mantra since 1972, amplified in 2025.” The song pulls from baroque, glam and synthpop — aka it’s a Sparks song, and another great one at that. Not bad for band that’s been going for more than five decades. Listen below.
The Maels will take sparks on the road starting this summer, with dates announced across Japan, the UK, and Europe. Hopefully North American dates will be announced soon.
SPARKS MAD! TOUR DATES:
Sun. June 8 – Kyoto, JP @ ROHM Theatre
Tue. June 10 – Osaka, JP @ Zepp Namba
Thu. June 12 – Fri. June 13 – Tokyo, JP @ EX Theater
Wed. June 18 – Thu. June 19 – London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
Sat. June 21 – Sun. June 22 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Apollo
Tue. June 24 – Glasgow, UK @ Royal Concert Hall
Thu. June 26 – Haarlem, NL @ PHIL Haarlem
Sat. June 28 – Brussels, BE @ Cirque Royal
Mon. June 30 – Paris, FR @ La Salle Pleyel
Tue. July 1 – Cologne, DE @ Gloria-Theater
Thu. July 3 – Copenhagen, DK @ The Koncerthuset
Fri. July 4 – Stockholm, SE @ Grona Lund Tivoli
Sun. July 6 – Berlin, DE @ Uber Eats
Tue. July 8 – Milan, IT @ Teatro degli Arcimboldi