{"id":805148,"date":"2020-03-12T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=965964"},"modified":"2020-03-12T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:00:27","slug":"sparks-channel-our-collective-angst-on-im-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/sparks-channel-our-collective-angst-on-im-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparks Channel Our Collective Angst on \u2018I\u2019m Toast\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4472e12c-4b18-4bb6-a801-826fa01e4ab4.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sparks\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sparks\" data-tag=\"sparks\">Sparks<\/a> voice our worst fears on the new song, \u201cI\u2019m Toast,\u201d an ominous tune accompanied by a rainbow-splashed lyric video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne tries to be uplifting in one\u2019s songs, but occasionally a cloud appears in the sky and one\u2019s demeanor leads to songs like \u2018I\u2019m Toast,&#8217;\u201d keyboard player\/songwriter Ron Mael tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cEven the guitars sound depressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m toast\/ There\u2019s something burning\/ I\u2019m toast\/ I\u2019m finally learning\/ I\u2019m toast\/ Nothing stays the same as it was,\u201d singer Russell Mael proclaims, entreating an Amazon Alexa to save us all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m Toast\u201d will appear on Sparks\u2019 upcoming album, <em>A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip<\/em>, out May 15 on BMG. They previously released \u201cSelf-Effacing,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/sparks-self-effacing-is-a-song-you-need-to-know-955773\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em> Song You Need to Know<\/a>. Sparks is also prepping a musical film titled <em>Annette<\/em>, written by the band, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard and directed by Leos Carax (<em>Holy Motors<\/em>). The band is also teasing a currently-untitled Sparks documentary directed by Edgar Wright (<em>Baby Driver, Spaced<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip<\/em> is the band\u2019s 24th album and the follow-up to 2017\u2019s <em>Hippopotamus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sparks-im-toast-965964\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sparks voice our worst fears on the new song, \u201cI\u2019m Toast,\u201d an ominous tune accompanied by a rainbow-splashed lyric video. \u201cOne tries to be uplifting in one\u2019s songs, but occasionally a cloud appears in the sky and one\u2019s demeanor leads to songs like \u2018I\u2019m Toast,&#8217;\u201d keyboard player\/songwriter Ron Mael tells Rolling Stone. \u201cEven the guitars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 10:16:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}