If you like Sparks, you'll like this - but prepare for the same as always yet slightly worse as 'Mad!' fails to do much new, or better than they've done before.

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MAD! conforms to what’s expected in its own off-kilter idiom, insomuch as any Sparks album can be reasonably defined.