Sparks - In Outer Space

Sparks' 12th album got off to the best possible start when the first single, "Cool Places," a breakneckedly breezy duet with The Go-go's' Jane Wiedlin, spun off to become the Mael brothers' first ever Top 50 hit in their American homeland. It would also be their last, but an entire generation of new fans arose regardless to pursue the siblings through both their future convolutions and their past ones too. In Outer Space's almost ruthless distillation of all that had gone before was, then, an ideal place for them to start. Read More