80s slump – to put in
mildly – was inevitable and not entirely
hopeless. But it’s hard to think of another band that has retained the original edge with such effortlessness and with such conviction. This extraordinaly ability to modify it
a little, to reinvent it, but to still have it... You’ve heard latest albums by
Keith Richards and Dave Gilmour to know how ‘who the fuck cares?’ it can
get.
But from “Fletcher
Honorama” to this. The Mael brothers can still pull it off, and “The Final Derriere”
(off The Forbidden Room, one 2015
film you should definitely see) is as a good a song as Sparks have ever written. I’m seriously struggling for names here…
