SparklehorseDreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A MountainVinyl 12" LP newDreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain is rife with a fuzzed-out grace and dark enchantment, featuring musical contributions by Danger Mouse, Tom Waits and Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips.Continuing to mine his unique brand of haunted rural melancholy with gossamer electronic traces and a skewed pop sensibility, Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain was recorded at Linkous' Static King Studios deep in the hills of North Carolina, with some recording done at Tar Box, producer Dave Fridmann's upstate New York studio. One of the most respected, beloved and established artists on the indie/alternative scene since the mid-nineties, Sparklehorse has worked with PJ Harvey, electronic experimentalist Christian Fennesz, produced records by Daniel Johnston and Nina Persson (Cardigans), and wrote much of the score for the hit movie Laurel Canyon. Sparklehorse has toured with REM, Radiohead and Mazzy Star, and is considered a contemporary and fellow-travel of bands like The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev and Grandaddy. Sparklehorse's 3 previous albums on Capitol have scanned nearly 120K combined, with each successive record selling more than the previous one. With extensive touring and festival dates planned, a huge amount of media coverage already confirmed, and numerous large-scale special promotion both off and online in the works, Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain is poised to be Sparklehorse biggest record yet.1. Don't Take My Sunshine Away 2. Getting It Wrong 3. Shade And Honey 4. See The Light (1) 5. Return To Me 6. Some Sweet Day 7. Ghost In The Sky 8. Mountains 9. Morning Hollow 10. It's Not So Hard 11. Knives Of Summertime 12. Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain Battling his own personal demons while he has been highly coveted as a producer for other bands, singer/songwriter Mark Linkous' output with his own Sparklehorse has been as irregular as it is ingenious. And it's been five years since the candid album It's a Wonderful Life welcomed a clean and sober Linkous, crafting the same divine and bizarre songs that have come to define his North Carolina-based band. That inclination continues here with the peculiar frontman punctuating his songs with mentions of ghosts and knives and mountaintops, and presenting them with a murmured, spaced-out and psychedelic soundtrack. The up-tempo, bundle-of-nerves pop songs "It's Not So Hard" and Guided by Voices twin "Ghost in the Sky," though luscious, seem out of place among slow and startling ballads like "Getting It Wrong," "See the Light" or, especially, the imminent kiss-off "Some Sweet Day," where Linkous grouses, "I was the one who loved you most/ But you can't put your arms around a ghost." A parting shot that's meant to linger—much like the 53 minutes that are Mark Linkous' latest comeback. --Scott HolterThe long awaited follow-up to 2001's 'It's A Wonderful Life', 'Dreamt For Lightyears In The Belly Of A Mountain' is thefourth studio album from the enigmatic Mark Linkous and friends. Featuring contributions from Tom Waits, The Flaming Lips' Stephen Drozd and Dangermouse, the record offers fans another helping of Linkous' unique brand of warped alt-rock. At points melodious and up-beat yet at others melancholy and restrained, 'Dreamt For Lightyears...' marks a triumphant return for Sparklehorse. Includes the singles 'Ghost In The Sky', 'Don't Take My Sunshine Away' and 'Knives Of Summertime'.If you like this also check out a band called DUFUS.You can find this in the shop at http://www.ironmanrecords.co.ukor for a direct url try http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Iron-Man-shop
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