Broken Sounds: Everybody Dansh Now.
Sam Boyle  |  by brokensounds.blogspot.com. All rights reserved. 28.11 | 18:48

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These past few weeks have been another mad time around these parts, hence my inability to get near a computer to type up these darned updates. I am going to do my best to fill in the blanks, but forgive me if the timeline is a little bent.

The Sad And Beautiful World Of Sparklehorse

By Ross Thompson


Somewhere, deep in the heart of North Carolina, Mark Linkous lives in a house that, AU imagines, looks as if it fell straight out of a 1970s Horror Movie. However, instead of being filled with bear traps and chainsaws and perhaps a few disembodied teenagers, it is stacked to the rafters with guitar pedals, mellotrons, pump organs and half-built drum kits. This is the home of Sparklehorse, the music project on which Mark Linkous has been working for over a decade.

Drawing influences from more underground artists such as Daniel Johnston and Smog, Sparklehorse take Alt. Country tropes and bend them into strikingly weird shapes.

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