DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL

 

The Dark Night of the Soul: an album people die for. Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse died in March 2010. Vic Chessnutt died on Christmas day 2009. They both appear on this album created by Danger Mouse together with Mark Linkous and which contains a little booklet of photos made by, oh gross, David Lynch, whom I tend to admire from a distance. 

Funny story: due to a legal dispute with EMI, the album almost didn't make it. Its first version released to the public in 2009 contained only David Lynch's photographs and a blank CD-R. The cover read: "For legal reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will." Eventually the album was released in 2010.

Many guest vocals on it:

Flaming Lips, Black Francis, Iggy Pop, Nina Persson (Cardigans), Mark Linkous, Suzanne Vega, Vic Chessnutt, to name a few.

On second listen I still fail to see the red thread uniting all these songs, but it doesn't matter. It sounds good.

Here's Iggy, still in pain:

Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Pain (feat Iggy Pop)

And here's a lazy little self-destructive one with Jason Lytle of Grandaddy. This song feels like one long, very long and very slow, pull of a girl's dirty underwear off a drunk guy's face, just Monday noon after the orgy. Heartbreaking, really.

Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Everytime I'm With You (feat Jason Lytle)



P.S. Hey. On second thought and millionth listen, having just danced naked in front of my cat, this song's got a little bit of Zorba the Greek in it, hasn't it? Try it, it works, it's fun, your cat will love you all the same (it doesn't matter who the food comes from.)