MADDER!

After conquering the world with their 28th studio album MAD!, the eternally- creative Ron and Russell Mael are releasing the first EP of their illustrious career."Not wanting the Mad!ness to end and buoyed by the phenomenal reaction to MAD!, we made a hasty but intense retreat to the studio to record a Sparks first: an EP," say the band. MADDER!, a four-song companion piece to the album, is for everyone who isn't yet MAD! enough. We hope these new songs will take you to an even MADDER! place." The first single from the MADDER! EP, is 'Porcupine', a song of a guy's fascination with a woman who possesses, shall we say, a prickly personality, all to a verse with a highly infectious organ riff that yields to heavy guitars in the choruses. "She's a porcupine," Russell croons - a metaphor or something more troubling? The other tracks on the EP are 'Fantasize', 'Mess Up' and 'They', and the new material is in the