Bird Machine
by Sparklehorse
  • Record Label: Anti-
  • Release Date: Sep 8, 2023
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  1. RBB3
    Sep 11, 2023
    9
    Just an utterly beautiful, moving album from the late Mark Linkous. It's hard to believe this has sat unreleased for 13 years...I had no idea there was to be a "new" album until I came across an interview his brother gave a week or so ago in The Guardian.

    Posthumous albums can be a dicey proposition, as sometimes they can sound wildly incomplete or sutured together. This is not the case    Just an utterly beautiful, moving album from the late Mark Linkous. It's hard to believe this has sat unreleased for 13 years...I had no idea there was to be a "new" album until I came across an interview his brother gave a week or so ago in The Guardian.

    Posthumous albums can be a dicey proposition, as sometimes they can sound wildly incomplete or sutured together. This is not the case with this album, it is as much a Sparklehorse as any released when Linkous walked the earth.

    As for the songs, my favorites are Evening Star Supercharger, and the gorgeous Everybody's Gone To Sleep.    … Expand

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#37 Best Album of 2023

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86

Universal acclaim - based on 12 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 12 out of 12
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  1. Under The Radar
    Oct 31, 2023
    75
    Bird Machine is a strong album and never sounds as if it’s been pieced together posthumously. His brother has done an incredible job under what must have been difficult circumstances, to draw a line under a unique body of work.
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  2. The Line of Best Fit
    Sep 29, 2023
    80
    Bird Machine is a resonant final word from an enormously talented singer-songwriter. While Linkous clearly struggled with depression, his music often feels as if it’s soaked in light and infused with love, even as it evokes melancholy and apprehension.
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  3. Dusted Magazine
    Sep 21, 2023
    90
    There’s the sparklingly Beatles-esque “Daddy’s Gone,” the bright, Mellotron-laced “Evening Star Supercharger,” and “The Scull of Lucia” is reminiscent of Radiohead’s “No Surprises,” with a naïve, music-box feel to its melodies. It’s in Bird Machine’s heavier moments, though, where the album really hits home — and the loss of a unique artist is most keenly felt.
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