welcome to my other voice

As you're prepping for another evening out on the town, or perhaps just looking forward to a night at home with three cats, a talk box, and your favorite pipe and slippers, toss on this super gangster cut from Sparks, the aberrant avant-disco pop duo out of old London town LA. "My Other Voice," from the 1979 No. 1 in Heaven LP, was first brought to our attention by Noah Lennox in the back of Animal Collective's pristine Dodge Freightliner, when we interviewed him for Sirius this past May. The jam pretty much hasn't stopped playing since.

Admittedly, we're not terribly familiar with the band's body of work, nor particularly impressed by their steez, but this one sufficiently intrigues us. In what feels like a five-minute time warp, the brothers Sparks pack quite a bit in just a wink: splashy reverse cymbals, robotronix vox (an effect that recalls Peter Frampton and Daft Punk, and many in between), eastern-themed Rickenbackers, campy choruses, and an unstoppable bass line, all tightly wrapped in an ethereal landscape cultivated by Giorgio Moroder's visionary production. Give it a whirl, regardless of what's up in that scene.

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Sparks My Other Voice