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Dark Night of the SoulThough slated for release in July, there's been a buzz surrounding the Sparklehorse/Danger Mouse collab for quite a while now. It was written and produced by the duo predominately, but also features an undeniabley impressive list of collaborators; Iggy Pop, The Flaming Lips, Frank Black (The Pixes), Suzanne Vega, Julian Casablancas (The Strokes), James Mercer (The Shins) and Scott Spilane (Neutral Milk Hotel). So suck it, (similarly named indie rock collaboration) Dark Was The Night. The CD was to be packaged with a book of exclusive David Lynch photographs (which were to serve as a visual narrative of the music), hand numbered and released in a limited edition set.
The book will still be released as planned, though the included BLANK CD will state "For legal reasons, the enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will." Why can't they publicly release the music you ask? Good question... The whole issue stems from Danger Mouse's hugely sucessful "Grey Album," a mash-up of the Beatles White Album and Jay Z's Black Album. EMI, with whom Sparklehorse is signed, owns the rights to the Beatles work and was none to pleased when D.Mouse used their work without permission by EMI. By none to pleased I mean REALLY pissed... If Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse were to release the album they would risk being sued by EMI, and have thus had to include a blank CD with hopes that fans find alternative methods (cough cough) of locating and listening to the album. NPR had just begun streaming it in entirety, and it's also leaked online so I believe you can DL it through torrent, etc. It's absolutely stunning and worth a listen through. Kiss my ass, EMI. Dark Night of The Soul- NPR Stream Dark Night Of The Soul Track List- 11:52 AM - May 18, 2009 - post comment
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