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May 15, 2020Here and throughout A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, Ron and Russel Mael riff on their history deftly, and the results are both timely and quintessentially Sparks.
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May 12, 2020For longtime fans, A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip is just another impressive notch in Sparks’ ever expanding career belt. But newcomers can come aboard here, then work themselves back through nearly five decades of similarly ecstatic, challenging and generally delightful Sparks music, most of it well worth hearing.
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May 14, 2020And so it brilliantly goes. ... These are classic Sparks moments, full of comedy, clever wordplay, deft explorations of all the myriad issues of the world, with arrangements that sound as current and fresh as a dew-soaked spring daisy.
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Jun 17, 2020A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip is still a heartening example of a truly original and who continue to enjoy success on their own unique terms by refining and amplifying their youthful weirdness instead of mellowing with age. [Jul 2020, p.88]
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May 12, 2020Two-dozen albums in, Sparks provide pleasing surprises. Unquestionably, A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip is one of their most dynamic — and strongest — efforts.
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May 13, 2020The Mael brothers have been waiting patiently for the world to catch up to them, but A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip signifies another bold creative peak moment for Sparks.
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MojoMay 12, 2020It's all carried off with the panache and confidence of a group making their first, not 24th, album. [Jun 2020, p.89]
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May 15, 2020The good news is that while it’s not better than Hippopotamus, their latest work is just as hilarious, and just as focused.
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May 12, 2020It's another wildly thought-provoking, fun, and wholly distinctive venture.
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Q MagazineMay 12, 2020No band should by rights sound as sharp, melodic and funny more than 50 years into their career, but Sparks are no ordinary band. [Jun 2020, p.113]
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May 14, 2020It is an album as multi-faceted as it is innovative. And that’s Sparks to a tee.
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May 12, 2020Sparks’ avant-garde tradition is freshly lacquered on A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, a track record injected with further potency during dystopic times. Jaunty melodies juxtapose with typical wryly wrought themes, levity undercut with social critique - the brothers’ inimitable style at its finest on an album that represents one of their most prescient and much needed.
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May 18, 2020This is their 29th album, a delightfully silly set of eccentric songcraft.
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The WireJul 10, 2020The album suffers a little from its 14 song duration. The Mael wit works best when it’s tightly presented. [Jul 2020, p.52]
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UncutMay 12, 2020Filled to the brim with usual abundance of trademark lyrical zingers, tenacious earworm melodies and stylistic zigzags. [Jun 2020, p.26]
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Positive: 11 out of 13
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Mixed: 2 out of 13
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