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This Indie Alternative-Rock band is essentially a vehicle for singer+guitarist
& songwriter Mark Linkous, a tall dark man who first came to make
music under the name Sparklehorse when Cracker's
David Lowery left his eight-track recorder at Linkous' Bremo Bluff, Virginia
USA, home while he went on tour.
"Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot", the Sparklehorse's debut
full-length album, was issued on Capitol Records in August 1995, the record
yielded a well-received single, "Someday I Will Treat You Good",
which peaked at #35 on The Modern Rock chart.
Tragically in early 1996, after a London gig opening for Radiohead,
Linkous took a few too many Valiums and collapsed in his hotel bathroom,
trapping his legs beneath his body; he was found twelve hours later, by
which time he had suffered a heart attack and caused bad damage to his
leg muscles, despite fears that he would never recover, Linkous has since
made steady progress, performing from a wheelchair with his band.
After a few years break from recording, Sparklehorse returned with its
sophomore LP, "Good Morning Spider"; the album was released
in February 1999 to good reviews, but it also failed to dent the charts
and didn't produce any marketable singles.
The next album, "It's A Wonderful Life", was once again primarily
the creation of Mark Linkous, who wrote, sang, played guitar, samplers
and drum machines; this time out, longtime drummer Scott Minor contributed
to the album as did The Cardigans' Nina
Persson and PJ Harvey; the disc eventually
reached #34 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart upon its July 2001
release.
Sparklehorse's new CD, "Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A
Mountain", was recorded alone by Mark Linkous in his Static King
Studios in North Carolina, guests on the album include Gnarls
Barkley's Danger Mouse and drummer Steven Drozd from The
Flaming Lips; the 12-track set, which features the single "Ghost
In The Sky", hit stores in September 2006.
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