Sparks refuse to “depend on [their] previous”.
The ‘This City Ain’t Large Sufficient for the Each Of Us’ hitmakers – comprising brothers Russell and Ron Mael – have launched 76 singles thus far and so they don’t have any plans on stopping making new tunes anytime quickly.
Russell informed Large Situation journal: “At this level, we actually really feel extra pressing than ever.
“We’re much more motivated to show some extent – that you simply don’t must fall into that lure of relying in your previous.
“What you’re doing now has acquired to be compelling and fashionable and forward-thinking.
“And if it isn’t, then there’s no cause to even be doing it.”
The brothers consider they’re nonetheless “musically robust” and provide one thing totally different to different artists.
Requested why they preserve going, Ron mentioned: “We all the time really feel that what we’re doing is one thing each musically robust and in contrast to lots of different issues which can be happening on the time.
“We really feel that our music and our presentation is fascinating, but it surely’s not attempting to be quirky or oddball and all.”
Cate Blanchett seems in Sparks’ latest music video for his or her new album’s title monitor, ‘The Lady Is Crying in Her Latter’, and so they defined they first met the ‘Tar’ actress when she knocked on their dressing room door on the Cesar Awards final 12 months to say she was a fan, an encounter they described as “mind-blowing”.
Russell recalled: “I believed, ‘Perhaps she’s within the unsuitable dressing room or one thing.’
“However she simply got here to introduce herself and mentioned that she was a fan of the band.
“It was fairly mindblowing to each of us.”