Day 15: Interior Design

A 60s or 70s stock photograph of a man and a woman in a bedroom. The woman, on the left,  is arranging clothes in an open suitcase on the bed. The man is standing on the right holding a closed suitcase. Through the window is another house with a car parked in front of it. Neither of the people have a small moustache.

Sparks' fifteenth album, 'Interior Design', builds on the pop aspect of the dance-pop sound of 'Music That You Can Dance To' . It was self-produced by the brothers in Los Angeles and has a very Californian sound to, all big drums sparkly synths and big choruses with the usual mild derangement. It is, in all, a decent synth-pop LP, but again it didn't chart although the singles 'So Important' and 'Just Got Back From Heaven' did well in the US dance charts. Looking at the video for 'So Important' they seemed to be still wanting to play the US chart game, with Russell in a big suit (not David Byrne big but still quite big) and Ron, well, being Ron. As always, there are some genuinely good tunes, but the rest aren't filler in any way. The sleeve doesn't feature the band, and the LP is CD length following the 35 minutes or so of the previous fourteen. It's still Sparks but I wouldn't blame them for wondering what they had to do to get a hit again.