Recorded after singer/songwriter Mark Linkous' accidental, near-fatal drug reaction and subsequent 12-week stay in London's St. Mary's Hospital, Good Morning Spider dwells in the gray areas between dreaming and waking, sickness and health, and living and dying. The album takes these grey areas and makes a world out of them, blending classic songwriting with an experimental sound that borrows from hi-fi and lo-fi. It's a natural progression from their debut, Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The long-awaited and much-anticipated new album from Mark Linkous (aka Sparklehorse), Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain, is rife with a fuzzed-out grace and dark enchantment, featuring musical contributions from Danger Mouse, Tom Waits, and Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips. Continuing to mime his unique brand of haunted rural melancholy with gossamer electronic traces and a skewed pop sensibility, Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain was recorded at Linkous' Stati...   [ read more ]

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Along with the Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev, Sparklehorse crafts strangely beautiful -- and beautifully strange -- music inspired by down-to-earth sounds as well as spacey experimentalism. But where the Lips are lovably loopy and Mercury Rev is arty and wry, Sparklehorse wraps deep-seated, often uncomfortable emotions in layers of metaphors and static. However, the group's third album, It's a Wonderful Life, is its most open and direct work yet. Whether this has anything to do with the...   [ read more ]

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