Hear Previosly Unreleased Song ‘IT WILL NEVER STOP’ By The Late MARK LINKOUS And SPARKLEHORSE

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9 December 2022

SPARKLEHORSE was the band of mastermind, songwriter and
multi-instrumentalist MARK LINKOUS born in Arlington, Virginia.

Together they created/recorded 4 masterly
longplayers between 1995 and 2006.

Linkous was one kind of musician. Enigmatic, visionary, and always balancing
on the edge as I witnessed myself in 1996 when he played in Brussels with Mazzy
Star
as support act. Unfortunately, Linkous who suffered from depression after
divorcing his wife in 2010. On March 6 of that year he shot himself with a rifle
in the heart, he was only 47.

SPARKLEHORSE was the band of mastermind, songwriter and
multi-instrumentalist MARK LINKOUS born in Arlington, Virginia.

His estate has now, unexpectedly, shared a previously unreleased
song, by the late legend, named IT WILL NEVER STOP.

Matt Linkous (his brother): “Great care has been taken to archive and
preserve Mark’s music. We are very thankful for Mark and the beauty he
brought to this world.”

Listen here to the vintage Sparklehorse rocker.
Short but mightily impressive.

SPARKLEHORSE: Bio – Discography –

SPARKLEHORSE Released His Capricious Top Album ‘GOOD MORNING SPIDER’ Twenty Years Ago…

Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…

18 July 2018

Artist: SPARKLEHORSE

Album: GOOD MORNING SPIDER – second longplayer

Released: 20 July 1998 – 20 years ago

PITCHFORK wrote: “Mark Linkous’ second album as Sparklehorse shines an old light on impossible things. He found the purity of pop music and then lacerated it with the quirks and imperfections he cherished. Its songs bleed in and out of each other: an organ drone ends one track and begins another, a strand of tape hiss winds through the work. You can hear machines starting up and stopping again, fingers squeaking across the frets of an acoustic guitar. Linkous had a tendency to sing close enough to the microphone that you could hear the spittle crackling off his teeth, like he’s whispering in your ear or through a tin can strung up with twine.”
Score: 9/10 – Full review here

TURN UP THE VOLUME
says: Mark Linkous‘ wayward, delicate, vulnerable, ugly/beautiful, quiet/loud, scary, confused, profound, gloomy, paranoid, raging songwriting – in sound and vision – is nothing less than genial…

TOP TRACKS: Pig / Maria’s Little Elbows / Sick Of Goodbyes

* PIG

* MARIA’S LITTLE ELBOWS

* SICK OF GOODBYES

Album in full…
https://open.spotify.com/album/4FWzJKnZMl51qBHzmKClqP?si=rPRLE7-YQY-Psz_G37iyjQ
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SPARKLEHORSE: Facebook – All Albums


R.I.P.