Sparklehorse It's a Wonderful Life
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Egarran
January 29th 2018


36858 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The drums on Gold Day are symptomatic of a slightly annoying overproduction on this album.

DoofusWainwright
January 29th 2018


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

The overproduction makes this album, it's meant to be kinda syrupy

Egarran
January 30th 2018


36858 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Disagree. It should be way more lo-fi, but obviously some company fag had to mainstream and it drive Linkous directly to suicide.

theBoneyKing
January 30th 2018


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Can someone please explain Dog Door to me.



Like, why



Just why

DoofusWainwright
January 30th 2018


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

No one likes 🐶 🚪

Deathconscious
January 30th 2018


27882 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah it is a pretty weird detour and not in a good way.

theBoneyKing
January 30th 2018


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Other than that song the album is pretty much uniformly ā€œwonderfulā€, heh heh

DoofusWainwright
January 30th 2018


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Show the šŸ• the 🚪 but 5 this anyway

SandwichBubble
January 30th 2018


13965 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

āœØšŸŽ

Deathconscious
January 30th 2018


27882 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

noice

Pheromone
January 31st 2018


21850 Comments


I dig dog door

theBoneyKing
January 31st 2018


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The instrumental is fine but the vocals are super annoying. I’ve never listened to Tom Waits but if that’s what he normally sounds like then count me out... The main problem with the track is that it really doesn’t fit the album’s atmosphere at all. King of Nails and Piano Fire are also fairly abrasive but they work much much better. I’m rarely tempted to skip songs on an album but Dog Door might have to become an exception... It’s probably not enough to affect how I rate the album overall but it’s a pretty glaring misstep imo.

theBoneyKing
February 4th 2018


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Sea of Teeth has settled as my fave here, that was the point on my first listen that I was sure I was listening to something really special. Such a beautiful melancholy.



Can you taste the ghosts

Who shed their creaking hosts?

But seas forever boil

Trees will turn to soil...


DoofusWainwright
February 4th 2018


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

'Sea of Teeth' is my favourite...either that of 'King of Nails'. Polar opposites.



'Sea of Teeth' is one I hold up there alongside Shearwater's 'I Was a Cloud' and the best of Talk Talk

theBoneyKing
February 4th 2018


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

It has a real skeletal beauty so I can see why you put it in a class with those.

King of Nails I like but don’t quite love but it has grown on me a bit as have all the Sparklehorse ā€œrockersā€.

DoofusWainwright
February 4th 2018


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

With the Sparklehorse rockers you have to embrace their equally lo fi and skeletal ways



Some of them do feel a bit too scrappy though









NorthernSkylark
February 4th 2018


12134 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

i'm full of bees who died at sea

Egarran
February 5th 2018


36858 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Apple Bed has that lo-fi quality I need.

theBoneyKing
March 7th 2018


24890 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Mark Linkous died 8 years ago today. RIP.

Egarran
March 7th 2018


36858 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

8 years of soul-destroying misery so far avoided.



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