#3517 Sparks - Hello Young Lovers

3.5/5 for my money, I'll take this over Lil' Beethoven for my late-era Sparks repetition-fest. More quietly strange, without the sharp edges of cringey bitterness. From the unpredictably direct opener to the closing howl against obscurity, everything swoops in placing, seemingly content to amuse itself. 20 albums deep, this might just be Sparks finally out to pasture, humming to themselves about what might have been