#mark linkous

[onekindredspirit]

Sparklehorse - "Saturday"

#sparklehorse #mark linkous #Youtube

[musickickztoo]

Mark Linkous *September 9, 1962

#mark linkous #sparklehorse #september 9

[d1gnan]

pig by sparklehorse inspired mixed media collage (2024)

#d1gsart #artists on tumblr #art #collage #mixed media #sparklehorse #indie #lofi #pig by sparklehorse #shiny new baby #spongy brain #idk #mark linkous

[moonsjonghyun]

#mark linkous #sparklehorse

[dustedmagazine]

Sparklehorse — Bird Machine (Anti-)

Photo by Danny Clinch

Bird Machine by Sparklehorse

When Sparklehorse released Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot in 1995, it felt like an outlier. At the time, during the height of Britpop, there weren’t many artists making slow-motion, country-influenced, lo-fi rock music like Mark Linkous. His aesthetic brought together a classic pop sensibility with a junkshop approach to instrumentation and timbre, where a song like “Chaos of the Galaxy / Happy Man” from second album Good Morning Spider literally sounded like tuning into a radio transmission. He collaborated with PJ Harvey and Tom Waits on It’s a Wonderful Life, and on the title track of fourth album Slept For Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, he painfully evoked the syrup-thick sensation of depression. Though Linkous was candid about his mental-health struggles, when he took his own life in March 2010, it was still a shocking and tragic loss.

Bird Machine is technically the fifth Sparklehorse record, and was worked on by Linkous in the months leading up to his death. This posthumous release has been lovingly put together by Linkous’s brother, Matt, and his sister-in-law, Melissa — and they’ve done a fantastic job. It sounds just as a Sparklehorse album should, and is a surprisingly upbeat listening experience given it was recorded during Linkous’s final months. Among the 14 songs are some searingly fuzzy numbers, such as opener “It Will Never Stop,” “I Fucked It Up,” and “Listening to the Higsons,” a Robyn Hitchcock cover. There’s the sparklingly Beatles-esque “Daddy’s Gone,” the bright, Mellotron-laced “Evening Star Supercharger,” and “The Scull of Lucia” is reminiscent of Radiohead’s “No Surprises,” with a naïve, music-box feel to its melodies.

It’s in Bird Machine’s heavier moments, though, where the album really hits home — and the loss of a unique artist is most keenly felt. The harrowing “O Child” is so slow and sparse that it feels like it could fall apart at any moment, and the lengthy instrumental outro includes fractured, static-flecked dictaphone recordings. On “Everybody’s Gone to Sleep,” Linkous taps into a mellow Yo La Tengo vibe, his vocal sounding uncannily like Ira Kaplan. After the brief guitar instrumental “Blue,” “Stay” is a heartbreaking piano-driven closer, reassuring a loved one “It’s gonna get brighter,” yet sounding as if Linkous is already heading towards the light. And on standout “Kind Ghosts,” which belongs among Sparklehorse’s finest songs, the lyrics are all the more bittersweet given the context: “Where were you, my kind ghosts, when I needed you?” Let’s hope they were waiting for him on the other side.

Tim Clarke

#sparklehorse #bird machine #anti- #tim clarke #albumreview #dusted magazine #mark linkous #posthumous music #songwriter #indie #alternative

[vyva-melinkolya]

She don't worry all them murders of crows

Even though they was always out of reach

She don't get up when I come into the room

She don't run through the fields anymore

#sparklehorse #mark linkous #slowcore #folk #post rock #Youtube

[spilladabalia]

Sparklehorse - Eyepennies

#sparklehorse #eyepennies #mark linkous #live 2007 #Youtube

[transpondster]

Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, and David Lynch

#danger mouse #sparklehorse #mark linkous #david lynch #brian joseph burton

[artfilmfan]

“This is Sparklehorse” (Alex Crowton & Bobby Dass, 2022) is one of the most beautiful music documentaries i have ever seen. Such a poetic, lyrical triumph in a low key way. Nothing bombastic, glamorous or glitzy about it, a genuinely down to earth approach with a wonderful collage of experimental like images. So much to admire in this. 

#sparklehorse #mark linkous #this is sparklehorse

[crumpulawn]

#sparklehorse #mark linkous

[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Track of the day // Sparklehorse - Evening Star Supercharger

From the posthumous album Bird Machine, out on September 8th on ANTI- Records.

#track of the day #recommended #music #new music #sparklehorse #mark linkous #evening star supercharger #bird machine #Youtube

[mouthsofflame]

🖤

#sparklehorse #mark linkous #music #vocals #lyrics #emotion

[musickickztoo]

Mark Linkous † March 6, 2010

#mark linkous #sparklehorse #march 6

[d1gnan]

sparklehorse inspired bracelet , hand stamped letters on found metals

#d1gsart #artists on tumblr #art #jewelry #sparklehorse #mark linkous #indie music

[syruckusnow]

Sparklehorse - "It Will Never Stop"

Mark Linkous, who recorded as Sparklehorse, died by suicide in 2010; his family discovered the previously unreleased “It Will Never Stop” among his recordings. It’s a noisy, low-fi stomp with just about everything distorted, vocals included, and it’s equally rowdy and desperate. “Please don’t vaporize into the sun,” Linkous sang, suddenly blasting louder as he added, “my love.” PARELES

#music #sparklehorse #Mark Linkous

[reckonslepoisson]

Good Morning Spider, Sparklehorse (1998)

The moments of revelation that dominate the Good Morning Spider experience are simply too overwhelming, to me, right now, to effectively put into words. Those revelations are achieved not just in the music – that is, in its often fantastical melodic prettiness – but in the very fidelity of the recording. How can one listen to this and not view Mark Linkous as the holder of some kind of divinity?

Pick: ‘Sunshine’

#good morning spider #sparklehorse #mark linkous #rock #country #lo-fi #country rock #alt-country #indie #1998 #music #review #music review