Danger_Mouse_and_Sparklehorse-Dark_Night_Of_The_Soul-Limited_Edition-2010-2CD-JUST

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2025-05-19

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Artist.......: Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
Album........: Dark Night of the Soul
Label........: EMI
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2010-07-17
Str.date.....: 2010-07-13
Quality......: 207kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.dnots.com/

track  title                                          time

 Disc 1/2
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 1.    Revenge                                        4:54
 2.    Just War                                       3:43
 3.    Jaykub                                         3:52
 4.    Little Girl                                    4:32
 5.    Angel's Harp                                   2:56
 6.    Pain                                           2:51
 7.    Star Eyes (I Can't Catch it)                   3:10
 8.    Everytime I'm With You                         3:11
 9.    Insane Lullaby                                 3:09
 10.   Daddy's Gone                                   3:08
 11.   Man Who Played God                             3:10
 12.   Grim Augury                                    2:31
 13.   Dark Night of the Soul                         4:40


 Disc 2/2
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 1.    Revenge                                        4:56
 2.    Just War                                       3:45
 3.    Jaykub                                         3:54
 4.    Little Girl                                    4:31
 5.    Angel's Harp                                   2:58
 6.    Pain                                           2:50
 7.    Star Eyes (I Can't Catch It)                   3:08
 8.    Everytime I'm With You                         3:11
 9.    Insane Lullaby                                 3:11
 10.   Daddy's Gone                                   3:10
 11.   Man Who Played God                             3:09
 12.   Grim Augury                                    2:31
 13.   Dark Night of the Soul                         4:40


                                            Runtime  91:41
                                            Size     135.90


Release Notes:

Though Dark Night of the Soul ù a collaboration featuring 
songs written and produced by Danger Mouse and            
SparklehorseÆs Mark Linkous accompanied by David Lynch's  
photography ù was supposed to come out in 2009, a legal   
dispute between Danger Mouse and EMI delayed its release  
by over a year. By the time Dark Night officially saw the 
light of day, Linkous  and another of the projectÆs       
players, singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt, were dead. This  
could have cast a morbid shadow over the entire           
enterprise, but at its best, the album is a tribute to the
collaborative spirit of everyone involved. After working  
with Danger Mouse on SparklehorseÆs 2006 album Dreamt for 
Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, Linkous  reunited 
with the producer to work on a set of songs that he didnÆt
feel comfortable singing himself, so they recruited an    
A-list crew of singers to provide vocals and lyrics. While
all the guest performers give a lot of themselves ù you   
can hear the genesis of Broken Bells in James Mercer's    
ôInsane Lullabyö and Suzanne VegaÆs ôMan Who Played Godö  
is as breezily bittersweet as one of her own songs ù the  
melodies are indelibly Linkous'. Even with other peopleÆs 
words on top of them, theyÆre alternately plaintive and   
whimsical, raging against an engulfing darkness or        
laughing at it all. Dark Night of the Soul's best moments 
feature artists most attuned to Linkous' vibe: Wayne      
Coyne's ôRevengeö is an inspired fusion of LinkousÆ       
dead-of-night ballads and the Flaming LipsÆ philosophizing
(ôOnce we become the things we dread/ThereÆs no way to    
stopö). Grandaddy's Jason Lytle is a perfect match for the
fragile, spacy Americana of ôJaykubö and "Everytime IÆm   
with Youö and Chesnutt  ù perhaps Linkous' most kindred   
spirit here ù heightens Sparklehorse's occasional Southern
Gothic bleakness on the nightmarish waltz ôGrim Augury.ö  
Meanwhile, Lynch's ôStar Eyes (I CanÆt Catch It)" is a    
beautiful and unexpected highlight, his Midwestern drawl  
providing a poignant contrast to his abstract lyrics.     
Interestingly, the singers interpreting the noisy, harsh  
side of Linkous' music donÆt fare as well: Black Francis' 
ambitious punk-noir-electro hybrid ôAngelÆs Harpö is too  
jarring, and while Iggy Pop's ôPainö could be seen as     
musical ipecac, his punk purging doesnÆt have the         
vulnerability that Linkous  brought to even his heaviest  
songs. He takes the lead on only one track here, the      
deceptively gentle ôDaddyÆs Gone,ö where he sings ôDonÆt  
delay/Because people decay.ö Despite the delay, Dark Night
of the Soul shows what a talent and what a generous       
collaborator we lost in Mark Linkous.                     
                                                          

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