Retrieved from " https: Underrated American treasure Jude Johnstone presents refreshingly spare, uncluttered grownup ballads on her latest, Living Room. He would later tell an interviewer that his depression had stalled the creation of the album, stretching the recording process out to about five years. The 10 Best Electronic Albums of Revisiting our best electronic albums from , we find these records have stood the test of time. Linkous uses long-held notes in the bass and treble to create a sense of continuity, and they are generally effective at creating a haunting quality. Taking in the tenor of his work as a whole, it's the latter that echoes strongest -- it covers many of his songs in a layer of gloom, but also a slow-penetrating kind of beauty.
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Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain Retrieved from " https: So it was really getting down to the wire where I had to turn a record foe. Taking in the tenor of his work as a whole, it's the latter that echoes strongest -- it covers many of his songs in a layer of gloom, but also a slow-penetrating kind of beauty.
One of the album's best songs, "Return to Me", rocks like a desolate sea shanty; when Linkous sings "Return to me, my love", the simple melody is completely entrancing. Edgar Allan Poe's 10 Best Stories.
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He would later tell an interviewer that his depression had stalled the creation of the album, stretching the recording process out to about five years.
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I can't really describe anything about yeags image that represents anything specific in the music, but it just really seems to fit to me. Similarly, wobbly effects and fuzzy glissanndi intrude on "Knives of Summertime", overtaking the steady chugging ballad completely at its end.
So I saved all these little pop songs. You have to be in the right frame of mind to tackle a Sparklehorse album.
Sparklehorse: Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
Brlly page was last edited on 17 Augustat Delicious Lips, Delicious Text: Views Read Edit View history. These out of place elements that interrupt these songs here and there will probably continue to keep Sparklehorse from reaching a larger audience. Linkous' fractured sensibility informs a fractious music; it cracks into fuzzy guitar rhythms, sparkles with big sky atmospherics, or settles into a depressive gloom without much indication which is most comfortable for the musician.
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TOPY and Genesis P-Orridge's knowing adoption of cult iconography and organizing principles quickly slid from satiric emulation to full embrace -- and we all went along with it. After an accident that could have ended his career, folk blues artist Charlie Parr recovered and recorded an album comprised largely of older tunes. An Interview with Charlie Parr After an accident that could have ended his career, folk blues artist Charlie Parr recovered and recorded an album comprised largely of older tunes.
His imagery is hewn from the land, too -- mountains, rocks, grass, insects form a natural mechanism for Sparklehorse's poetry.
Sparklehorse, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
This expanded edition fir Cherry Red Records makes the case for hearing it free of the baggage of that alt rock era. The album cover was created by artist Robert Pokorny.
Indie rock alternative rock. Five years after his fourth record, It's A Wonderful LifeMark Linkous returns with the obtusely titled Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain ; and the intervening time has, on the whole, been a positive force for the volatile leader of Sparklehorse.
Linkous uses long-held notes in the bass and treble to create a sense of continuity, and they are generally effective at creating a haunting quality.
Electro duo the Juan MacLean release a flat collection of previously released house singles on Spparklehorse Brighter the Light.
Doug Soarklehorse and Stu Cook look back on the bright-burning Creedence Clearwater Revival Woodstock set from Augustand talk about the decision to get off the road after 25 years as Creedence Clearwater Revival. Popmatters is wholly independently owned and operated.
When Sparklehorse isn't pursuing tangents, though, the band's introspective beauty is an understated but valuable gift.
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