It's A Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse

It's A Wonderful Life by Sparklehorse (2001) It's a wonderful life? What? A wonderful life? No it isn't. The economy has gone to hell in a hand basket and now the proletariat has to eek out a baleful existence hand to mouth in the gutter eating spiders and cat droppings. When this record was released skyscrapers were being transformed into tombstones in a fiery furnace. Curse you Mark Linkous, with your utopian poison rotting the minds of these sweet and wretched innocents. Unless you were being ironic just to mess with people, because then that would be totally cool. One - It's A Wonderful Life From my reviews of the first two ...  Read the complete review

Whilst looking for Radiohead songs the other day I found a Pink Floyd cover, (‘Wish you were here’) which Sparklehorse featured on (apparently they were Radiohead’s support band of choice). I decided that I liked their sound and wanted to investigate further, so I borrowed ‘It’s a wonderful life’ from Stafford Library for around £2. It was a little money well spent I feel… This album is a slow burning ember that glows warm and bright, lingering in its fragile surround. It is an album that can get ever-so-slightly tedious and repetitive (‘Comfort me’), but overall proves its worth with tender and beautiful ...  Read the complete review

i dont know as much as i should about sparklehorse. I do however know what i like, and i like this. its a little gem of an album, full of absolutely beautiful tracks, and beaultiful is the word. what makes it elegant is that singer mark linkous is joined by the fabulous Nina Persson of the Cardigans, who in my opinion has one of the sexiest, beautiful (there that word again) voices there is (check out Gran Turismo). In order to write this review i have put on 'its a wonderful life', and a strange sensation has overcome me. it feels...wrong. At first i couldnt put my finger on it. but then it hit me. Ive never listened to this album when its been ...  Read the complete review