Sparks (Imogen Heap album)

Sparks
Studio album by
Imogen Heap
Released19 August 2014
Recorded2011–2014
Studio
  • Purcell Room (London)
  • The Hideaway (Havering)
  • Bedfords Park Walled Garden (Havering)
  • Samode Palace (Jaipur)
  • Room 2105 at the Meander Tree Hotel (Hangzhou)
  • Mau5trap (Ontario)
  • Various locations (Edinburgh, Bhutan, Hangzhou, around the world)
Genre
Length59:34
Label
Producer
Imogen Heap chronology
Ellipse
(2009) 		Sparks
(2014) 		The Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – In Four Contemporary Suites
(2018)
Singles from Sparks
  1. "Lifeline"
    Released: 28 March 2011
  2. "Propeller Seeds"
    Released: 8 July 2011
  3. "Neglected Space"
    Released: 21 October 2011
  4. "Minds Without Fear"
    Released: 21 October 2011
  5. "Xizi She Knows"
    Released: 5 February 2012
  6. "You Know Where to Find Me"
    Released: 2 November 2012
  7. "Telemiscommunications"
    Released: 12 March 2013
  8. "Run-Time"
    Released: 30 June 2014
  9. "Entanglement"
    Released: 15 August 2014

Sparks is the fourth studio album by English singer Imogen Heap, released on 19 August 2014 through Megaphonic Records in the United Kingdom and through RCA Records in the United States. Recorded between 2011 and 2014 across four different continents, with a new song being written and released every three months, it was primarily written and produced by Heap, with additional writing and production from collaborators Deadmau5, Vishal–Shekhar, and B.o.B, as well as production from Nick Ryan.

The album is primarily an electropop record, also incorporating of other genres such as dance-pop, ambient, bhangra, a cappella, Bhutanese folk, and spoken word. It is also loosely a concept album, where each song makes use of different technological innovations such as crowdsourcing, 3D audio effects, reactive music, and a pair of musical gloves developed by Heap. Lyrically, the record covers a number of mostly disparate themes, among them being technology, relationships, sex, and Heap's life.

In the United States, Sparks sold ten thousand album-equivalent units, debuting and peaking at number 21 on the Billboard 200 chart and at number one on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart, giving Heap her second chart-topper on the latter. The album was released with a standard edition, a deluxe edition, and a deluxe box set, the last of which was nominated for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards and for Special Catalogue Release of the Year at the 2015 AIM Independent Music Awards.