The wiki entry describes this as glam. Really? It's in a genre all of its own. Completely bonkers, pulling in baroque and early electronica. It sounds like the drugs that were around at the time. The melodies are all there. Kimono is a pop album at heart. I wish Eurovision was still as utterly baffling as this.
You probably only need one Sparks album, but this could be it. The arrangements, the production and the writing are all playful, funny and smart. Some of the classics are here, and I loved ‘Christmas’, which was new to me. I am late to the Sparks party, but I felt very welcome and this was an absolute romp from beginning to end,