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Rating: In 2006, five years after "It's A Wonderful Life," Mark Linkous re-emerges, releasing "Dreamt For Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain," the final Sparklehorse album. Linkous spends these 5 years at Static King, his personal recording studio in North Carolina, composing new songs and developing others that were left out from the previous work.
Danger Mouse and Dave Fridmann contribute to the album's creation (both in production along with Linkous himself), as well as various collaborators including Tom Waits, Steven Drozd, and the usual Scott Minor. This album represents a step back in terms of composition compared to Sparklehorse's discography, yet remains an above-average product. The album appears in nearly all 12 episodes as highly derivative of "It's A Wonderful Life," but there are welcome innovations. Such is the case with "Don't Take My Sunshine Away," which combines lo-fi production and Beatles influences, and "Mountains," where the magnificent samples of Danger Mouse appear. The album closes with the title track, featuring guitar loops and all kinds of keyboards, transporting us to hyperuranic places. The song is pervaded by rarefied and delicate atmospheres that at times recall the ambient of Fennesz, with whom Linkous collaborated in 2009 for "In The Fishtank 15."
"Dreamt For Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain" is the album that concludes the story of Sparklehorse, as Linkous, after this album, will release a collaborative album with Danger Mouse and one already mentioned with Fennesz. In March 2010, Linkous takes his own life, leaving unfinished the album he was working on, which was supposed to have Steve Albini as the producer.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Don't Take My Sunshine Away (03:05)
your face is like the sun sinking into the ocean
your face is like watching flowers growing in fast motion
all your kisses i swallowed
brightened mornings and hollows
my vines and tree knots will come unwound
baby you are my sunshine
my sunshine
please don’t take my sunshine away
the grounded fireflies are little stars that are dying
returning to the earth i can hear them crying
like christmas bulbs that i swallowed
slept in a tree that’s gone hollow
and never a brittle wintertime
baby you are my sunshine
my sunshine
please don’t take my sunshine away
sunshine
my sunshine
please don’t take my sunshine away
02 Getting It Wrong (02:16)
Set your woods on fire
Hide up in the spires
The flames kept dancing higher
They're playing our song
They're playing our song
They're getting it wrong
Ophelia in the creek
Caught up in the sticks
Some things can't be fixed
They're playing our song
They're playing our song
They're playing our song
03 Shade and Honey (04:08)
I could look in your face
For a thousand years
It's like a civil war
Of pain and of cheer
But if you was a horse
I could help you with your chains
I could ride you through the fields
By your fiery mane
May your shade be sweet
And float upon the lakes
Where the sun will be
Made of honey
I'll cry diamonds while you burn
'Cause no one here can save you
She's returning to the earth
But one day she'll be silver
Stars are dying in my chest
Until I see you again
She was born with the wings of a hawk
Now she combs her hair with blood
May your shade be sweet
And float upon the lakes
Where the sun will be
Made of honey
May your shade be sweet
And float upon the lakes
Another sun could be
Made of honey
May your shade be sweet
May your shade be sweet
And float upon the lakes
May your shade be sweet
05 Return to Me (03:18)
Arise oh brother mountain
Our hooves hammering your coils
The rivers carve out your hollows
With tears from me
Return to me
Return to me my love
Oh my love
Be still oh rusting river
Unlock her name from your grass
Unburden the pressures of fathoms
Of tears from me
Return to me
Return to me my love
Oh my love
Oh my love
Return to the clouds
Return in the caves
Return over valleys
Oh my love
Oh my love
Oh my love
10 It's Not So Hard (02:52)
To wake
Not swallowed by willows
Half eaten by widows
A new day's begun
Smile
'Cause nothing here matters
The spiders get fatter
Explode in the sun
Oh c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon
It's not so hard
Oh c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon
It's not so hard
It's not so hard
It's not so hard
To trap
The dead dogs of summer
Assaulting your slumber
Stay drunk ever more
Rise
Your jewelry will scatter
On deserts and saturns
The rings are on fire
Oh c’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon
It’s not so hard
C’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon
It’s not so hard
Oh c’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon
It’s not so hard
C’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon
It’s not so hard
It’s not so hard
It’s not so hard
It’s not so hard
11 Knives of Summertime (04:19)
A flock of knives cut the sky
And buried in my black eyes
And the clouds they bled in my head
And autumn rains soaked the dry beds
And the hurricane of her eyes
Willed away the knives
The knives of summertime
Summertime
The knives of summertime
Summertime
The knives of summertime
And I did swallow stained glass tears
Absorbed by the sun for many light years
And the fireflies in her hair
My red concertina's coming down the stairs
And the hurricane of her eyes
Willed away the knives
The knives of summertime
Summertime
The knives of summertime
Summertime
The knives of summertime
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