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Sparks Are Li’l Album-Cover Freaks
Ranking the band’s most museum-worthy artworks with the brothers themselves.
Ron and Russell Mael have never stopped adding creative kindling to the artworks behind their 26 studio albums, which, they explain, are just as essential of a selling point as the songs themselves. This freeze-framed ethos is as prevalent as ever on the brothers’ newest album, MAD!, which was released on May 23 — no surprise, really, given their love for the movies and treating their own songs like short films. Ron Mael: Our father worked for a newspaper in Los Angeles in the art department, and he would bring home these press photos of cars for the upcoming year.
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