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| Matador Recs 'Run On Jury' | sue: I like that line. I like this.
david: I like how you hear what he ate for lunch. rick: is that a sample of record noise or is that real record noise now? |
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| The Cherwell | 'Hammering The Cramps' is very, very good. It is classic
off-kilter country rock'n'roll: all clanging guitars and quavering vocals.
But 'Spirit Ditch' is literally spine-tingling. It is so quiet you have
to strain to catch the soft broken singing, slow acoustic strumming and
phrases like: "If I had a home...you know it'd be...in a slide trombone..."
If you're not shivering yet, you're dead.
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| San Francisco Bay Guardian | Sparklehorse revamps the Fugs' William Blake classic,
here called "London," on their new single. Sparing no romanticist expense,
they feature a coronet and strings in the song, as well as singer-guitarist
Mark Linkous's better-than-being-there production. If you haven't heard
this band's hi-fi minimalism, start here and wear a seat belt. The B-side's
seven-minute "Intermission" turns the sound of a circus organ into a good
excuse for Prozac.
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| RipItUp | 'To Richmond, Virginia, and Sparklehorse is an unlikely
name for a band to have a single as fine as 'Someday I Will Treat You Good'
(White). Lord of the Manor, Mark Linkous has a passing resemblance to Tom
Petty (Southern Roots), but fortunately that's where the similarities end
in this crackling, surging burst of rawk 'n' rawl.
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| Pitchfork | Sick of reviewers telling you things you don't want to know? Don't you just
want them to get to the point? Well, now it's your turn to ask those direct, to-the point questions
you wish reviewers would ask themselves... [4/5]
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| NME | As musical couplings go, this is the most unpredictable since Kylie writhed
around prince of darkness, Nick Cave. Here, The Cardigans' sunny, Swedish singer Nina Persson
cosies up with the famously reclusive, vaguely peculiar Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse. Beautifully
understated, Nina's almost inaudible among the flute and strings as she softly joins Mark for a
chorus to melt even the hardest heart. Less bleak than some imagine Linkous to be and more magical
than even he's managed previously, Sparklehorse have once more made the unexpected something you
can't live without.
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