Eyes above me Eyes are blown End now just when the wall becomes a hole I don't want to know The ground is shaking Out of realm A hunted world Where it never shows I don't want to go I feel it forming Through the skin Swallow me whole Let it bury me in And there I go
It's coming down Like a sharp Curve in the sky And I don't even know why If it's in your nature you'll never win If it's in your nature you'll never win
It used to be that The war was brought But now the end becomes us again We never let it in And in the shadows A burning light It's getting deeper for the fight So run off, run off Let it drip down you Run off, run off Like it was born for you If it's in your nature you'll never win If it's in your nature you'll never win
And then you go down that old regarded road And i'm not the one to say i told you so And you know You know If it's in your nature you'll never win If it's in your nature you'll never win If it's in your nature you'll never win If it's in your nature you'll never win If it's in your nature you'll never win
01. HEARTLINES/FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE (CEREMONIALS) 02. WIRED/I BREAK HORSES (HEARTS) 03. RE-WIRED/KASABIAN (VELOCIRAPTOR!) 04. INSANE/THE D.O.T. 05. HYACINTH GIRL/THE EVERSONS (THE EVERSONS EP) 06. VISIONARY/WE HAVE BAND 07.I WROTE IN BLOOD/STILL CORNERS (CREATURES OF AN HOUR) 08. HEXAGONS II (THE FLIGHT)/ESBEN AND THE WITCH (HEXAGONS EP) 09. TREAD ON THEM/WATER BORDERS (HARBORED MANTRAS) 10. PINKY'S DREAM/DAVID LYNCH FEAT. KAREN O (CRAZY CLOWN TIME) 11. SUMMON THE SOUND/S.C.U.M. (AGAIN INTO EYES) 12. TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT/LOW ROAR (LOW ROAR) 13.COMMON BURN/MAZZY STAR (COMMON BURN/LAY MYSELF DOWN Single) 14. VTOO/TORCHES 15. SICK/THE TWILIGHT SAD (NO ONE CAN EVER KNOW)) 16. BURYING DAVY/THE DECEMBERISTS (LONG LIVE THE KING)
Bonus Tracks
ALONE ON THE ROPE/NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS THIS PLACE IS A SHELTER/ÓLAFUR ARNALDS (LIVING ROOM SONGS)
Watch the room All is pinky Watch the room All is pinky Watch the room All is pinky Watch the room All is pinky Watch the room All is pinky
Pinky, pinky, pinky, pinky, pinky, pinky
Pinky is damaged Going fast the way Parable going up the way Orange glowing the way Pinky's dream glowing the way
Pinky what do you see? Flying down the road Pinky tell me Are you laughing or are you crying?
Watch the room All is pinky Watch the room All is pinky Watch the room All is pinky Watch the room All is pinky Watch the room All is pinky
Pinky, pinky, pinky, pinky, pinky, pinky
Pinky is damaged Going fast the way Parable going up the way Orange glowing the way Pinky's dream glowing the way
Pinky what do you see? Flying down the road Pinky tell me Are you laughing or are you crying?
Hey pinky How can you go so fast? Hey pinky Would you shake my bed Hey pinky What's in your mouth? Hey pinky How can you scream so loud? Hey pinky What do you see? Hey pinky Is a rub I can't be
All is pinky Watch the room All is pinky Watch the room All is pinky
I came by invitation to general Chelsea mayhem Then going on to somewhere Yes, I was going somewhere A single random meeting with your eyes and I am beaten And now I'm going nowhere I know I'm going nowhere
With all the voices in my head The clever words I never said Of all the things to happen
In a girl panic That's driving naked through my mind It's a crush panic She's got me atomized
You beg me to get closer Dress falling off your shoulder Then heat is wrapping around us This city strapped around us 'Cause now I sense your mission is my coming demolition And you just hold me under I know I'm going under
With all the voices in my head The clever words I never said And you just let it happen
In a girl panic That's driving naked through my mind It's a crush panic She's got me atomized In a girl panic The midnight traffic in her eyes Like a hypnotic And I am mesmerized
You know I want you I know you know I want you
With all the voices in my head The clever words I never said And you just let it happen
In a girl panic That's driving naked through my mind It's a crush panic She's got me atomized In a girl panic The midnight traffic in her eyes Like a hypnotic And I am mesmerized In a girl panic A crush panic She's a hypnotic It's a girl panic
Proprio mentre la EMI stava finalmente per dare il via libera alla pubblicazione ufficiale di Dark Night Of The Soul, l'album virtuale nato dalla collaborazione tra Danger Mouse, David Lynch e gli Sparklehorse (uno dei dischi migliori del 2009), il leader della band americana, Mark Linkous, ha perso la sua battaglia contro la depressione, togliendosi la vita.
REVENGE/DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE FEAT. THE FLAMING LIPS
Pain I guess it's a matter of sensation But somehow You have ways of avoiding it all
In my mind I have shot you and stabbed you through your heart I just didn't understand The ricochet is the second part
Cause you can't hide What you intend It glows in the dark Once you've sought The path of revenge There's no way to stop And the more I try to hurt you The more that it hurts me
Strange It seems like a character mutation Though I have all the means of bringing you fuckers down I can't make myself To destroy upon command Somehow forgiveness lets the evil make a loss
No you can't hide What you intend It glows in the dark Once we become The thing we dread There's no way to stop And the more I try to hurt you The more it backfires The more it backfires The more that it backfires
Che la EMI, tra le major, sia quella che di internet, del file sharing e delle potenzialità della rete ci ha capito meno (praticamente nulla) di tutte, questo già si sapeva: non a caso i Radiohead, proprio dopo aver lasciato senza rimpianti la casa discografica britannica, pubblicarono in rete (gratis, o quasi) In Rainbows, dimostrando all'industria musicale che nell'era del web si può fare benissimo anche da soli. Questa volta, invece, a farsi beffe delle Electric and Musical Industries, sono gli Sparklehorse: dalla collaborazione tra Mark Linkous e Brian Joseph Burton, al secolo Danger Mouse (ideatore del progetto Gnarls Barkley e produttore, tra gli altri, di Beck), nasce infatti Dark Night Of The Soul, concept album ricco di collaborazioni eccellenti, arricchitto dall'artwork del regista David Lynch. Ma alla EMI, questo incontro di grandi personalità artistiche deve aver messo paura, al punto che, esattamente come aveva fatto qualche anno fa con un'altra iniziativa di Danger Mouse, il bootleg The Grey Album (irriverente mash-up tra il White Album dei Beatles ed il Black Album di Jay-Z), decide di andare per vie legali, impedendo l'uscita del disco. Un vero peccato, devono aver pensato Linkous e Burton, che hanno deciso, con una trovata decisamente geniale, di mettere comunque in vendita la parte visuale di Dark Night Of The Soul, ovvero il libro di foto scattate da Lynch, insieme ad un cd vuoto, da masterizzare sul pc di casa: tanto in rete, si sa, le canzoni si trovano facilmente... Il libro è caro, 50 dollari (ma c'è chi dice che ne valga la pena), ma per 10 verdoni si può avere il poster, sempre corredato da un CD vergine. Ecco quindi che il gioco è fatto: chi lo vorrà potrà comunque ascoltare questo lavoro, con buona pace invece di chi, nel grigio isolamento dei piani alti della City, mantenendo un atteggiamento bieco ed indisponente nei confronti delle nuove possibilità di distribuzione della musica, finirà per rimanerne (giustamente) travolto. Fin qui la storia, una sorta di Davide contro Golia dei giorni nostri, della forma di questo progetto. Ora, perchè no, due parole sul contenuto: probabilmente il miglior disco uscito quest'quest'anno, almeno fino ad adesso. Il folk-rock degli Sparklehorse, impregnato del talento dei Flaming Lips (la splendida ballata Revenge), di Julian Casablancas (Little Girl), di Iggy Pop (Pain), di Nina Persson (Daddy's Gone), di Suzanne Vega (The Man Who Played God), e scandito dai ritmi di Danger Mouse, diventa epico ed evocativo, alternando momenti di cupa durezza ad altri di toccante intimismo, pur mantenendo costantemente un'atmosfera oscura ed intrigante, tanto che sembra di vederle, le immagini di David Lynch, scorrere sullo schermo della mente. Un po' come era accaduto, più di dieci anni fa, con Psyence Fiction degli UNKLE: nonostante dietro ad ogni pezzo ci siano voci e storie diverse, il risultato finale è un'unica, omogenea, compatta sensazione di insieme.
