This story was reported on towards the end of last year, but I thought it high time for an update. Omnipresent producer Brian Burton (Danger Mouse, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, TGTB&TQ, Danger Doom) and Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse — who worked together on Mark's latest album — will be releasing what's sure to be a hot collab sometime in the not-so-distant future: Dangerhorse. (I would have gone with Sparklemouse, but that's just me.) Danger Mouse, who caught the LA Sparklehorse gig at the Music Box, said that he's listened to a few songs they've already recorded and is very excited about the pairing. Then he told me he was running late for a meeting to discuss producing Jesus' new album, then sped off on a …
Pining for the fjords, or at least pining to hear a few Grandaddy-style expanses? Well then, you're in luck because here Sparklehorse linchpin Mark Linkous does the plaintive pastiche thing as well as those Modesto Big Sky cowboys (especially on 'Don't Take My Sunshine Away' and 'Shade and Honey'). Additionally, Linkous can lay a boar bristle broad stoke of mischievously adorned bliss in tune with the Flaming Lips (whose drummer, Steven Drozd plays on this full-length). Linkous has also shared a producer with the Lips'specifically David ...
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