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Sparklehorse Nab Waits, Danger Mouse for New LP

Following their formula of providing Pitchfork with the same news story every two years *, Sparklehorse have announced details of the follow-up to 2001's It's a Wonderful Life. This time, however, the record is finished and scheduled for a tentative September release (hello, 2008!).

The band's website reports that most of the currently untitled album was made "in the style of VivaDixie/Good Morning Spider by Mark [Linkous, songwriter and Sparklehorse leader] alone in Static King Studio." The rest of it was "mixed at Smart Studio in Madison, Wisconsin with Danger Mouse and engineered by Alan Weatherhead and Beau Sorenson." With all those details, how could it possibly be postponed?

And like a kindergarten report card that includes the comment "plays well with others," the album features collaborations with Danger Mouse, Christian Fennesz, Sophie Michalitsianos, Johnny Hott, Scott Minor, Stephen Drozd of the Flaming Lips, and super-producer/past collaborator Dave Fridmann as well as an unreleased song from It's a Wonderful Life with Tom Waits on piano. Whoa!

Yes, it's just like kindergarten, a kindergarten full of music icons.

* see HERE and HERE.

 

Posted by Dave Maher in album on Thu: 04-20-06: 12:00 AM CDT | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink
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