This was "news" a little while ago, i thought about it today, and never saw anything about it here. so...

Pitchfork (reserve opinions) did an interview with Mark Linkous (of Sparklehorse) in February about some upcoming projects. he talked about his next album, and a special project that he and Danger Mouse are working on.

"we just kind of mentioned, you know, in passing, like maybe we should do a record together that's not either, that's not Sparklehorse or anything. He wanted to call it Sparklemouse and I wanted to call it Dangerhorse."

Linkous goes on to talk about how it will be a record of primarily collaborations. He and Danger Mouse will do the arrangements and then give the songs over to other artists to sing and record.

He goes into detail about the other musicians saying...

"I got some of my buddies to sing and do their thing, like Vic Chesnutt and Jason [Lytle] from Grandaddy and people like that."...

"I had one that worked really poppy that I was scared to sing but that I knew would be on this album, and we gave that to Gruff [Rhys] from Super Furry Animals and he sang that"...

"I don't want to reveal too much, but the Flaming Lips track just came in and it's fucking awesome."...

"Everything takes so long. I'm trying to get Chan Marshall to sing on them, the one that Wayne [Coyne] sang on, and Steven [Drozd] did some instrumentation and sang on two of them. We had a song that I had sent the Flaming Lips that, oddly enough, I played drums on it, and I'm not a drummer. In fact, a working title was called "Mark on Drums", and that's one that the Flaming Lips picked to work on, who have Steven Drozd, whom I consider one of the best drummers in the world. So they do this great job of finishing up the track, but the drums sound like this 90-year-old-man [laughs]. Like bad Ringo fills in slow motion."

for the people who don't know, Mark Linkous and The Flaming Lips have done multiple things togeather. They worked together and came up with a great Daniel Johnston cover, Steven plays drums on the most recent Sparklehorse album, and Sparklehorse and Dave Fridmann have a long history of working togeather.

with the looks of Multiple Flaming Lips collaborations (Steven on lead vocals?) and countless other great musicians its easy to be excited for this record.



full interview here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/48642-mark-l...tate-of-sparklehorse

This will be great, I think

Danger Mouse is the shit

word!

plus a plethora of fantastic musicians

Oh jesus christ... there is ecstatic electric yellow jizz everywhere.... christ... bright rainbow panda's of infinite bliss just crowding up the room

WOW... this is going to be epic. I am sooo excited pants.

http://dnots.com/

http://stereogum.com/archives/...of-the-s_061812.html

quote:

We had more than a few conversations at SXSW about the intriguing, ubiquitous (in Emo's anyway) poster for the otherwise unknown project from old friends Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse, with a billed guestlist including Black Francis, Julian Casablancas, the Flaming Lips, James Mercer, Iggy Pop, Gruff Rhys, Jason Lytle, Nina Persson, Suzanne Vega, even more etcs., and visuals by David Lynch(!). But now they're turning up in bloggers' mailboxes so IT IS ON. As in, let's all post about it and talk it out? Hive mind time. David Lynch implies filmic supplement, the fine print on the poster promises an "album coming summer 2009."

Oh sheeit.

Wow. This sounds like its gonna be fucking awesome.

I'm not trying to revive a dead topic here, but for those of you who heard and liked Dark Night Of The Soul (and know that it isn't getting an official release) you can get a hard copy of the album in the form of a test pressing/promo vinyl. I got mine here
for $8, but it looks like its gone up a little. It sounds great, and it's awesome that you can get a hard copy at all.

Aw man, i wish i could order that, i love this album. I'm kind of depressed now. I want it.

Just got the promo that Floydian linked to above.

Listened to it, and the sound quality is shit. No scratches, but tons of pops and crackle. This is worth owning as an investment or a collector's item, but not as a great listening experience.

Good to know. I saw it at Waterloo the other day listed for $30...rip off!

Yeah, Mine only pops on "Revenge" (my favorite) but the rest sounded better than the NPR rip. Again, I got mine for $8. Sorry if my recommendation sucked