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Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
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Mark Linkous' first Sparklehorse album in five years includes collaborations with Danger Mouse, Christian Fennesz, and Tom Waits.
| LABEL: | Astralwerks |
| RELEASE DATE: | 26 September 2006 |
| DISCS: | 1 disc |
| GENRE(S): | Indie, Rock |
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The average user rating for this album is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 23 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jake W gave it a10:
Sparklehorse is brilliant.
Kelly W gave it a9:
Great album, but we've had Shade and Honey, Morning Hollow, Ghost in the Sky and Maxime (aka Dreamt for light years....) for years now. WTF?!
mads l gave it a7:
My only problem with this latest effort from the very talented Mark Linkous, is the fact that no new ideas are brought to the fore despite the fact his last album was released half a decade ago! That is a mild criticism though when you get enraptured by a lovely tune like Shade and Honey anyway...
Rosie gave it an8:
Yes, yes, it's good, of course. But where's the innovation, where's the development from their previous work? As others have said, Dreamt is more akin to Vivadixie than either of the intermediary releases - there's a frustrating sense of regression about this. Some beautifully crafted songs (and that's rare enough anywhere), but it's just more of the same. A shame after so long an incubatory period.
J C gave it a10:
I think its there best album yet...
Alice R gave it an8:
Great music - it is only now that I can appreciate why there was such a long wait!
Guy H gave it an8:
'Dreamt...' ticks all the right Sparklehorse boxes - you have gentle beauty (Shade and Honey), acoustic simplicity (Return to Me), full throttle punk (Ghost), sparkly pop (...Sunshine) and a bit of a tearjerker (Morning Hollow). There is something missing though - the album doesn't seem to have a unique voice of its own like 'Goodmorningspider' or 'Wonderful Life' did. Its a bit more like 'Vivadixie...', some great songs that fit ok together to make a solid album. The one real exception is the final track, a lengthy instrumental mood piece that probably sounds like a dull idea on paper but actually works really well and gives this album something unique. Oh, and this is the first album not to mention Captain Howdy in a single song - what is the Sparklehorse world coming to?
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