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Marjorie HACHE

Pop-rock American duo Sparks is back on track with new studio album

Marjorie Hache Russell Mael California

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Brothers Ron and Russell Mael are back this year with a pumping 26th studio album entitled "The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte". It's full of their trademark piano and synth-rich pop merging staccato and operatic gusto around themes ranging from intense longing for love to observation of the ordinary. FRANCE 24's Marjorie Hache met up with the California duo – whose career has spanned half a century – to find out more.

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