Album Rating: 4.5

Chaos of the Universe has grown on me the most after three listens, album is immense

Album Rating: 4.0

“Falling Down” hit real hard on first go

Album Rating: 4.5

'Falling Down' is def top 5



I guess my favourites here are: Kind Ghosts, Evening Star, Falling Down, Chaos of the Universe, Listening to the Higsons



I'm thinking maybe 'O Child' might gatecrash that selection eventually



'I Fucked It Up' is goofy in a great way too - tbh the first six tunes are really strong and win you over completely, whatever followed would have been acceptable. It does get a little patchier after that point but still some good stuff later.

Album Rating: 4.0

Man this is lovely. “Kind Ghosts” is really special.

Album Rating: 4.5

Is indeed Boney :D



Didn't realise 'Higsons' was a cover....'Kind Ghosts' and 'Chaos of the Universe' now officially my top 2.



Also now I've read it can't help but hear Jason Lytle's backing vocals here, which is a great enough thing anyway.

Album Rating: 4.0

Daddy’s Gone is very Grandaddy

love SH

tbh always hesitant with posthumous stuff but w/e

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah this is the most grandaddy mercury rev sparklehorse

Album Rating: 4.5

'Daddy's Gone' featured on the 'Dark Night of the Soul' album before this, though in a different version (with Nina Persson providing vocals) - can't say it's one of my favourites here, again has that sort of light Beatles'y vibe.



Prob in my bottom four here.

Album Rating: 4.2

1. Falling Down

2. Evening Star Supercharger

3. Chaos Of The Universe

4. Kind Ghosts

5. Hello Lord

6. Scull Of Lucia

7. Stay

8. I Fucked It Up

9. Daddy's Gone

10. It Will Never Stop

11. Everybody's Gone To Sleep

12. Listening To The Higsons

13. O Child

14. Blue



My approximate track ranking at the moment!

Album Rating: 3.5

After a bit of documentation and reading Sunny's review, I think I'm ready to hear this one.



And yes, it's my first Sparklehorse.

Album Rating: 4.5

Sunny - you don’t dig noisy horse?

Album Rating: 4.5

Early rating/ranking:



1. Kind Ghosts [5]

2. Falling Down [5]

2. Chaos of the Universe [4.5]

4. Higsons [4.5]

5. Evening Star [4.5]

6. O Child [4]

7. It Will Never Stop [4]

8. Fucked [4]

9. Hello Lord [4]

10. Scull of Lucia [4]

11. Everybody’s Gone to Sleep [3.5]

12, Stay [3.5]

13. Daddy’s Gone [3.5]

14. Blue [2.5]



‘Falling Down’ moved top two but still like ‘Chaos’ a lot



‘O Child’ feels the most trad ‘music box falling to bits’ Sparklehorse tune, def second best ‘ballad’ after ‘Falling Down’, makes a couple of the later ones close to redundant. Prob a main critique of the album there, plus a few too many MOR Beatles-y touches at times for my tastes. Great album though.

Album Rating: 4.0

Bit surprised Chaos seems to rank so high, that’s a mid/low tier cut for me, kinda wish it fit a bit more with that Neil Young-esque riff.

Album Rating: 3.5

they should have included 'morning hollow' in the album again as a joke, given its inclusion on the past 2 sparklehorse LPs

Album Rating: 4.2

@Doof, it depends, while his softer stuff tends to be my preference, I do rank some his louder/noisier tunes like Pig and Hammering the Cramps very highly. Just don't think those types of songs here are particular highlights.

Album Rating: 3.5

Forgot this is out. Don't think I've actually heard a full Sparklehorse album, might have to start here after reading this review.

Album Rating: 4.0

Hah @Phero



I'd be interested to know how much of this was truly intended as part of an "album" per se, as posthumous releases go this is interesting in that it does feel quite genuinely like an album Mark might have put out, though in a way it's almost too obviously constructed like a Sparklehorse album in some ways - it covers just about very space on the Linkous bingo board, if you will; you have the pretty, melodic indie pop tunes, the lo-fi rock tunes, the music box moments, the slowcore tunes, the country tunes.

Album Rating: 4.0

Sowing as what I just said indicates, this is a decent sampler of most of the sounds Linkous covered over the course of his career, and the quality is mostly up to par, that said I'd still recommend giving at least It's a Wonderful Life a full spin before this.

Album Rating: 4.0

“Kind Ghosts” more like “Kind of Perfect” innit?