If you're a fan of both Sparklehorse and vinyl, you know how hard it is to land a copy of what some would argue is their best album (including me) , It's A Wonderful Life .  On Ebay, an original and only pressing of the record goes from $99-$199 depending on condition.  Fans can get excited as It's A Wonderful Life and  Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of The Mountain will get the 180 gram deluxe gatefold reissue treatment.  I haven't seen any news for this because an official statement hasn't been released or ...

Barsuk Records is excited to announce that New York's Yellow Ostrich will be releasing their new album, Strange Land, on March 6, 2012. Strange Land is the follow-up to the acclaimed The Mistress, and is self-produced with engineer Beau Sorenson (Death Cab for Cutie, Sparklehorse). The Mistresswas...

Barsuk Records will release Strange Land , the new full-length from New York's Yellow Ostrich , on March 6th. The group produced the album themselves, but recorded with engineer Beau Sorenson (Death Cab for Cutie, Sparklehorse). As well, the group has expanded from being Alex Schaaf's bedroom project to "full-fledged power trio". Explore mylegsaresore.com for some cryptic sneak peeks at the new record. [ mylegsaresore.com ]

This coming Monday FOE releases her debut album Bad Dream Hotline , and to celebrate it she's put together a pretty awesome forum based around dreams. If you head over to http://baddreamhotline.tumblr.com/ you can send Miss Clarke your recent dreams, or nightmares, and she'll analyse them for you. Now that's what we call 'good promotion'. It's also worth checking out this FOE/Entrepreneurs cover of Saturday by Sparklehorse:

Barsuk Records is excited to announce that New York's Yellow Ostrich will be releasing their new album, Strange Land, on March 6, 2012. Strange Land is the follow-up to the acclaimed The Mistress, and is self-produced with engineer Beau Sorenson (Death Cab for Cutie, Sparklehorse). The Mistress was also self-produced, and was made by singer/guitarist Alex Schaaf on his own, playing all the instruments. With multi-instrumentalist Jon Natchez and drummer Michael Tapper in the fold, Strange Land presents Yellow Ostrich fully formed, no longer a bedroom project, but rather now a full-fledged power trio.

Sounds like: Memoryhouse, Sparklehorse, Brian Eno, Slowdive, Foxes in Fiction What’s so good? MPSO, or Mount Pleasant Sympathy Orchestra, is the side project of Toronto-based Daniel Gray of the dream pop band Memoryhouse. Self-described as “atmospheric, indie electronic, folk, minimalist-maximalist doom,” Gray’s work ranges from gentle musings to a smart cover of indie singer à la [...]

Click here for download Sounds like: Memoryhouse, Sparklehorse, Brian Eno, Slowdive, Foxes in Fiction Song: MPSO - Can I Convince You [download here ] What's so good? MPSO, or Mount Pleasant Sympathy Orchestra, is the side project of Toronto-based Daniel Gray of the dream pop band Memoryhouse. Self-described as “atmospheric, indie electronic, folk, minimalist-maximalist doom,” Gray’s work ranges from gentle musings to a smart cover of indie singer à la mode Lana Del Rey. In this, he demonstrates not only a diverse range but a certain niche-defining panache. His talent doesn’t immediately make clear his expertise in Memoryhouse as ...

Tortoise is one of those bands that, once I locked into what was going on behind their music, I found that I understood what was going on in a lot of other bands I hadn’t really “gotten” up until then. It was because of Tortoise that I finally “got” bands like Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips, Sparklehorse, to name a few, [...]

En Cuchara Sónica nos gusta compartir toda la buena música con la que nos topamos y hoy quiero presentaros a Uncles, una banda de indie-folk de Nueva York que pronto publicará m4w, su segundo disco de estudio. Descubrí a la banda gracias a su nuevo single “Bayberry Lane”, cuyo videoclip podéis ver al final de estas líneas. Se trata de una canción que puede llegar a recordar al estilo de grupos como Grandaddy o Sparklehorse y que tiene una producción exquisita. Primero el piano y la infantil voz de su...

After a 405 Focus piece, and his incredible 'Fill Me In' feature, we thought it would be good to lock in Benjamin Shaw for an 'Under The Influence' piece too. So that just leaves a guest mix, artist picks and disposable 405 article, before this site becomes the unofficial second home for Mr Shaw. In the Fishtank – Sparklehorse & Fennesz I have long been a devotee of both Sparklehorse & Fennesz, so to find out they had worked together on this was a delightful surprise. Almost all instrumental, it combines the electronic guitar glitches of Fennesz and Mark Linkous' creepy atmospherics wonderfully ...

On Further Review by Julie Stoller What's the deal with David Lynch? David Lynch - Stone's Gone Up As the man responsible for blowing minds with the surreal, supernatural, ridiculously addictive soap opera spectacular that was Twin Peaks , and such deliciously twisted films such as Blue Velvet, Lost Highways, and Mulholland Drive, it was inevitable that David Lynch , on his debut album, would conjure up something quite interesting... Though Lynch has notably collaborated with Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks), Polish pianist Marek Zebrowski (Inland Empire), Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse (Dark Night of the Soul), and most recently Chrysta Bell (This ...

I succumbed to the croaky cabaret songs of Benjamin Shaw (“ Born in hate and raised in Blackpool ”) earlier this year upon hearing his 2010 EP “ I Got the Pox, the Pox is What I Got ” and slapped lead song ‘Thanks For All The Biscuits’ on this Cloud Sounds podcast back in March. Now at the tail-end of this year comes “There's Always Hope, There's Always Cabernet”. And somehow the despondency is even more epic and the Mark Linkous-on-Mogadon vocals even more anguished. His self-penned bio sets the scene beautifully: “ Lurching from one disastrous Customer Service job to the ...

The brothers White have been the core duo within The Electric Soft Parade for 10 years, ably partnered with permanent bassist Matthew Twaites. Having recently played their three full-length albums in Brighton over three weeks and then supported Noel Gallagher on his first UK tour with his High Flying Birds, The Soft Parade found themselves playing a sold out Hoxton Bar and Grill. Opening act Toys gave a blisteringly loud mix of shoegaze and psychedelic Krautrock. Toy’s relentlessness impressed and highlighted ESP’s prog-rock approach to timing and pace. Ultimately Toys opening showed just how talented and different The ...

After various collaborations and a short tenure as a touring member of Sparklehorse in the summer...

It’s strange how some people meet. Dustin O’Halloran (who we have reviewed) and Adam Wiltzie met a few years ago backstage in a Sparklehorse gig (missing Mr. Linkous). Whatever makes things happen in this world geared this chance meeting into … Continue reading →