{"id":3544,"date":"2025-03-25T14:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2025-03-25T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:31:00","slug":"sparks-mad-23may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/sparks-mad-23may\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Sparks \u2013 <em>MAD!<\/em>, out 23 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sparks - MAD!\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/sparks-mad\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"Sparks - MAD!\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/2505\/Sparks.jpg\" alt=\"Sparks - MAD!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sparks<\/strong> \u2013 brothers Ron and Russell Mael \u2013 are back with their 28th album. <strong><em>MAD!<\/em><\/strong> Most acts would, by their seventh decade in the biz, have slowed to a crawl, creakily playing their past hits on the heritage circuit and releasing nothing more than the occasional \u2018greatest hits\u2019 collection. This is not the case for Sparks, who triumphantly return yet again, proving their resilience and relevance in a modern world with a fresh record and summer world tour to accompany it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: The LP is initially available on <strong>light blue vinyl<\/strong> with a lenticular sleeve.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sparks - MAD!\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/sparks-mad\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sparks \u2013 brothers Ron and Russell Mael \u2013 are back with their 28th album. MAD! Most acts would, by their seventh decade in the biz, have slowed to a crawl, creakily playing their past hits on the heritage circuit and releasing nothing more than the occasional \u2018greatest hits\u2019 collection. This is not the case&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[36,829,830,208,194],"class_list":["post-3544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-sparks","tag-special-offer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}