Sparklehorse

It's A Wonderful Life

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A1	It's A Wonderful Life	2:58
A2	Gold Day	4:13
A3	Piano Fire	2:41
A4	Sea Of Teeth	4:27
A5	Apple Bed	4:54
A6	King Of Nails	4:14
B1	Eyepennies	4:59

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Review

A Virginia boy, Mark Linkous, moves to L.A., founds an overlooked alt-rock band and moves back to the mountains. Then he starts playing strange ballads so scruffy and imagistic that Tom Waits and PJ Harvey cameo on his new album. Linkous has a cracked, untricky voice, the perfect medium for the slow, elegiac songs of Sparklehorse's third album. He sings about the interior world in terms of the outside one - emotions and sense as beauty and entropy, display and decay. Waits' hoarse whisper motivates the creepy shuffle "Dog Door," and Harvey harmonizes… Read More

on the haunting "Eyepennies." The music is as stately and deep as good loam, built around a few measures repeated stolidly with a kind of back-country resignation. Nothing here becomes anything else: Even the noise stays noise - "King of Nails" crashes lightly, full of cymbals and feedback; "Comfort Me" is skewed-key near-pop. Musing, eerie and oddly lovely, It's a Wonderful Life is almost minimalist - it captures fleeting moments in a few chords and peculiarly evocative phrases.

ARION BERGER
(RS 876 - August 30, 2001)

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Sparklehorse	It's A Wonderful Life 381569 Nm/nm Uk, Capitol Records, Cdp724352561629, 2001	CD	NEAR MINT (NM OR M-)/NEAR MINT (NM OR M-)	vakuum records Denmark	$3.19	Add to Cart Details
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Sparklehorse	It's A Wonderful Life - Promo Us Cd Album (sealed) Scarce Us 12 Track Promo Cd Album In Custom Card Sleeve. Capitol Records. 2001. Brand New Item (sealed) Capitol, Cdp 7243 5 25616 2 9	CD	NEW	The Left Legged United Kingdom	$4.00	Add to Cart Details
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Sparklehorse	It's A Wonderful Life - Promo Us Cd Album Scarce Us 12 Track Promo Cd Album In Custom Card Sleeve. Capitol Records. 2001 (nm/nm) Capitol, Cdp 7243 5 25616 2 9	CD	NM/NM	The Left Legged United Kingdom	$5.33	Add to Cart Details
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Sparklehorse	It's A Wonderful Life Sparklehorse Its A Wonderful Life (2001 Us 12-track Advance Promo Cd From Mark Linkous & His Band In Custom Card Picture Sleeve) Tracklisting: 1. It's A Wonderful Life ...3 copies	CD	EX TO MINT	eil / esprit United Kingdom	$17.26	Add to Cart Details
Sparklehorse	It's A Wonderful Life Unsealed Unplayed Europe, Capitol Records, 724352561629, 2001	CD	MINT (M)/MINT (M)	dischiniccoli Italy	$18.10	Add to Cart Details
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Sparklehorse	It's A Wonderful Life Stunning Condition, Properly Graded, In Fact Slightly Under Graded, Collectors Will Not Be Disappointed. Uk, Capitol Records, None, 2001	CDR	NEAR MINT (NM OR M-)/VERY GOOD PLUS (VG+)	PEAR United Kingdom	$12.34	Add to Cart Details
Sparklehorse	It's A Wonderfull Life- Cd Single France Promo- - 3 Tracks- - Card Sleeve- - - - France-, Emi, 724355008121, 2001	CD Single	VG+ / EX	Cosmic Song France	$7.00	Add to Cart Details

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