OK, no more Mr Nice Guy - where the FUCK is Sparklehorse??

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2005 needs a new Sparklehorse album. Or at least some kind of update, some indication the band still exists - even a lame 'covers' EP would suffice at this point.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

According to the most recent Magnet Magazine, the new album is "slated for a late-spring release on Capitol."

Apparently Dave Fridmann is helping produce, too.

― Brock!, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

oh wow. Thanks man! Psyched.

Who's on the cover? Is my letter to the editor in there? I've been published in Magnet a few times under the pseudonym "Sheila Drumm0nd L0pez" and recently criticized their, err, 'election coverage'

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

I just got my copy in the mail today -- Elliott Smith is on the cover, plus all their year end wrap up stuff. And, as a matter of fact, there is a letter from Sheila Drummond-Lopez of Knoxville, TN, under the header "Pinko Commie Bastards." Nice.

― Brock!, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

hahahahah!! great.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Looking forward to this.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

If you really need yer sparklehorse fix, he's got two tracks on the "The Late Great Daniel Johnston - Discovered Covered" double disc thingy. (One as Sparklehorse w/the Flaming Lips, the other as The Rabbit). Overall, the lineup is pretty good, so you shouldn't have to throw it away after you hear the Sparklehorse tracks, and he co-executive-produced the covers disc, so you can get a little insight into what he maybe likes and/or was able to wrangle out of people.

Album info should be at www.gammonrecords.com last I checked.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Just happened to check out their website which is under major construction. You can't link to anything directly from the main page, but if you type in www.sparklehorse.com/songs.html you can see what the layout will look like.

This seems to be good evidence that a new album is on the way.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain, September 25.

guests: Danger Mouse, Tom Waits & The Flaming Lips

tracklist

1. Don't Take My Sunshine Away
2. Getting It Wrong
3. Shade And Honey
4. See The Light
5. Return To Me
6. Some Sweet Day
7. Ghost In The Sky
8. Mountains
9. Morning Hollow
10. Knives Of Summertime
11. It's Not So Hard
12. Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain

(and yes, dripping sound)

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, this was revived more recently.

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

fuck dangermouse. srsly.

no fennesz?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

But but but Dangermouse is the modern musical messiah because he is everywhere. Chuck Klosterman said so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't get the memo!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

I gots ta BCC you on these things in future.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Ned, c'mon, I need to be kept up to speed.

& according to the sparklehorse website Fennesz is on the album.

I'm listening to IAWL for the first time in about 3 years now. it seems i've changed a fair bit in that time!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 July 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Don't Take My Sunshine Away, the first track on the new album, is on their MySpace page.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 31 July 2006 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

I can't be the only one who thought of both of these with the thread title...

http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/pochettes/511_1455.jpg

http://independentmailmusic.com/home/images/articles/20060406134107534_1.jpg

― dottie nuttie dach nach dtnt hhhhhhhh (donut), Monday, 31 July 2006 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

it'd be way better if it was the REAL danger mouse guesting:

http://surbrook.devermore.net/adaptionsmovie/danger-mouse.jpg

― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Monday, 31 July 2006 05:44 (eighteen years ago)

DM: "we're on with tom waits and the flaming lips!"
penfold: "no fennesz?"

― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Monday, 31 July 2006 05:52 (eighteen years ago)

Weird, "Shade & Honey," "Ghost In The Sky," and "Morning Hollow" were all b-sides for a "It's A Wonderful Life."

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 06:47 (eighteen years ago)

and 'maxine', the final track on this album: "12. Dreamt For Lights Years In The Belly Of A Mountain (aka Maxine)" was a bonus track on the vinyl pressing of "it's a wonderful life" as well as a b-side.

― mark h (mark h), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:40 (eighteen years ago)

I guess Mark is in a songwriting drought. He didn't even bother to re-record them. Only 8 new songs in 5 years...

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

it's apparently leaked. anyone have any thoughts? I've only heard a few tracks but I'm enjoying them. They are familiar but in a comforting way.

― Jacobo Rock (jacobo rock), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

it's very good. it's maybe not as good as the last album (which I think is the best of the four) but it's very good anyway.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

He seems to be treading water, but it's forgiveable because the production is so luscious. Linkous is making fine use of that overhauled Daniel Flickenger console.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

it's a reasonable album, this. gentle, fuzzy sparklehorse goodness. some lovely optigan-style noises in the mix, especially at the end of "ghost in the sky". didn't realise so many of the songs were so old, mind. the title track is monumentally dull, too.

UK press copies are arriving with a little "HEY! REMEMBER SPARKLEHORSE? HERE'S A SAMPLER OF THE LAST THREE ALBUMS" CD that i imagine will be worth all of 0.005p in a few years' time.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 24 August 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

it's pretty frustrating that he had to include so much old stuff on there, but it's still pretty enjoyable.

i used to really love the title track, but i'm not it really fits on the album. there's some classic linkousness though; stuff like "some sweet day". yeah.

― Alexei (alexei), Thursday, 24 August 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

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