new Sparklehorse!

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:29 pm

I keep thinking to myself, where is steven drozd?

At home in upstate NY?

chris harris · Post by **chris harris** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:00 pm

i think that he's back in oklahoma

Roman Sokal · Post by **Roman Sokal** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:21 am

just listened to a promo copy of the new album....amazing!!!
*melt* *melt*!!!

Roman Sokal · Post by **Roman Sokal** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:24 am

Track List:

01. Don't Take My Sunshine Away 03:06

02. Getting It Wrong 02:16

03. Shade And Honey 04:08

04. See The Light 03:43

05. Return To Me 03:19

06. Some Sweet Day 04:20

07. Ghost In The Sky 03:29

08. Mountains 03:43

09. Morning Hollow 07:23

10. It's Not So Hard 02:53

11. Knives Of Summertime 04:20

12. Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A 10:35

Mountain

Release Notes:

Mark Linkous, the guiding force behind acclaimed

rock act Sparklehorse, will release his fourth

full-length album Sept. 26 via Astralwerks. "Dreamt

for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain," his

first set since 2001, was primarily recorded at

Linkous' studio in western North Carolina.

Additional sessions took place at David Fridmann's

Guitar Box Studio outside of Buffalo, N.Y.

Among the contributors to the album are the Flaming

Lips' Steven Drodz, who plays drums, guitar and

synthesizer, Tom Waits and red-hot producer Danger

Mouse. Waits guests on "Morning Hollow," an

unreleased track from Sparklehorse's 2001 album

"It's a Wonderful Life." "My kid brother played

guitar on a few, and my sister-in-law played violin

on a few, too," Linkous tells Billboard.com.

After hearing Danger Mouse's famed "Grey Album"

mash-up of the Beatles and Jay-Z, Linkous invited

the professed Sparklehorse fan to his studio to help

with production. The new friendship yielded four

tracks in which they share production credit. "I

never really understood what it is he did, but

working with him was great," Linkous says. "He'd

grab some guitar parts from a certain song, filter

it, put it in some different timing, and put it into

another song."

"We're definitely going to do a proper collaboration

at some point, like the Danger Doom record [on which

Linkous played bass] -- but maybe something like

Danger Horse. We're not sure what we're going to

call it," he adds.

Linkous describes "Light Years" as "way more

poppyier" and "a little more haphazard" than prior

efforts. "There are some nice mistakes, and things

that are not totally right," he says. "I guess

lyrically, I would have liked it to be more

ambitious, and a little deeper."

A short U.S. tour, including a stop at the Austin

City Limits Festival, is in the works, to be
followed by a European run in October.

chris harris · Post by **chris harris** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:26 am

poppier is good!!

"Guitar Box Road"?!?! hahaha!

bannerj · Post by **bannerj** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:15 pm

This sounds like it promises to be an amaing record...an interesting one at the very least. I can't wait.

joel hamilton · Post by **joel hamilton** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:57 pm

I love "morning hollow."

I worked on that song with Mark and Scott and the fellas. Tracked a bunch of stuff.

http://www.sparklehorse.org/dfly.html

Sparklehorse is one of those special projects, that will always have a big place in my heart. Great people, really cool sounds, great players... what more could an engineer ask for?

I cant wait to hear this one, scott.... Glad to see the stuff i worked on with you guys make it to TWO of your records!!!!

Talk soon.....lets make some music....

brainfreezebob · Post by **brainfreezebob** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:21 pm

Been listening to this one all week. It's at least his most consistant, and it might be his best. Sounds like the voice of god, of course.

logey · Post by **logey** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:25 pm

Wow...cool album, but whats with the 7 date, 6 city American tour? I feel jipped out of a chance to see them live again. After all its only been what...5 YRS!? Oh well, I cant say I blame them. When they came to Seattle in support of IAWL there were about 75-100 people in a venue that could easily hold about 10 times that many. It was a great show though...one of my top ten easily. Guess I'll just have to catch them in Malmo or someplace.

pulse_divider · Post by **pulse_divider** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:35 am

I bought it the day it came out and have listened to it once so far.
I don't know, I'll have to go back and give it a few more listens to be fair, but my initial impression wasn't too good. Of course the song writing and playing is top notch, but it sounds kind of cold, overcompressed and inorganic to me and all the electronic/sampling stuff seems really gimmicky. For the record, I'm really open minded about that kind of thing, I just don't really dig it on this record.
I'm really hoping I start to like it, the other 3 albums are amongst my all-time favs.

bannerj · Post by **bannerj** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:00 pm

I finally listened to some of it at Barnes...those listening stations that give you something like 2 seconds. I had this record, Beulah, Decemberists, Zero 7, Aqualung and the newer Broken Social on my lap. I left with the newer Broken Social and am listenin to it right now.

I know you should give a record more of a listen than what is available on those listening stations, but I knew from the first 30 secs of It's A Wonderful Life that I was hooked. I still want to buy this but none of the tracks really grabbed me. Sad.

the riff · Post by **the riff** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:50 pm

I've been hearing the single 'don't take my sunshine away" on the radio here. The production is amazing. I love how the drums sound almost like the mic cables were crapping out. And man, that guitar tone when it stops and it's just guitar.. Really cool.

tonewoods · Post by **tonewoods** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:54 pm

"Wow...cool album, but whats with the 7 date, 6 city American tour?"

Check this out...
Might tide us over till they tour here...

Tons of Chamberlin on the live recording....
Nice stuff...

Here tis:

Sparklehorse
2006-09-25
FM
Paris, Maison de la Radio - Studio 105
Black Session #250

Source: Yamaha TX-396L FM Tuner > Sony DTC-ZE700 DAT Deck
Lineage: Sony DTC-ZE700 > Terratec DMX6Fire Lite (optical in) > Mastering/Editing > WAV > Flac

o Tracklisting

Gold Day
Sad & Beautiful
Apple Bed
Hammering the Cramps
Painbirds
It's Not So Hard
Eyepennies
Spirit Ditch
Weird Sisters
Ghost in the Sky
Don't Take My Sunshine Away
Someday I Will Treat You Good
Homecoming Queen
Chaos of the Galaxy/Happy Man

Total running time: 54'55"

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