ARTiST: Sparklehorse
TiTLE: Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
LABEL: EMI
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 53:15 min
SiZE: 80,5 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Aug-10-2006
RELEASE DATE: Sep-25-2006
WEBSiTE: www.sparklehorse.com
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.