Nel 2006, dopo 5 anni da "It's A Wonderful Life", Mark Linkous si rifà vivo pubblicando "Dreamt For Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain", l'ultimo album di Sparklehorse. Linkous passa i 5 anni in questione allo Static King, il suo personale studio di registrazione in North Carolina, a comporre nuovi brani e a svilupparne altri rimasti esclusi dal precedente lavoro.
Alla realizzazione del disco contribuiscono Danger Mouse e Dave Fridmann (entrambi alla produzione assieme allo stesso Linkous), oltre a vari collaboratori tra cui Tom Waits, Steven Drozd e il solito Scott Minor. L'album in questione rappresenta un passo indietro in termini di composizione rispetto alla discografia di Sparklehorse, rimanendo comunque un prodotto sopra la media. Il disco appare in quasi tutti i 12 episodi molto derivativo da "It's A Wonderful Life", ma non mancano le gradite novità. E' il caso di "Don't Take My Sunshine Away", che coniuga produzione lo-fi e influenze beatlesiane, e di "Mountains", in cui compaiono i grandiosi sample di Danger Mouse. Chiude il disco la title-track, con loop di chitarra e ogni genere di tastiere, che ci trasporta in luoghi iperuranici. La canzone è pervasa da atmosfere rarefatte e tenui che ricordano a tratti l'ambient di Fennesz, con cui lo stesso Linkous ha collaborato nel 2009 per "In The Fishtank 15".
"Dreamt For Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain" è l'album con cui si conclude la storia degli Sparklehorse, difatti Linkous, dopo questo disco, pubblicherà un album in collaborazione con Danger Mouse e uno già citato con Fennesz. Nel marzo 2010 Linkous si toglie la vita, lasciando incompiuto il disco a cui stava lavorando e che avrebbe dovuto avere come produttore Steve Albini.
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01 Don't Take My Sunshine Away (03:05)
your face is like the sun sinking into the ocean
your face is like watching flowers growing in fast motion
all your kisses i swallowed
brightened mornings and hollows
my vines and tree knots will come unwound
baby you are my sunshine
my sunshine
please don’t take my sunshine away
the grounded fireflies are little stars that are dying
returning to the earth i can hear them crying
like christmas bulbs that i swallowed
slept in a tree that’s gone hollow
and never a brittle wintertime
baby you are my sunshine
my sunshine
please don’t take my sunshine away
sunshine
my sunshine
please don’t take my sunshine away
02 Getting It Wrong (02:16)
Set your woods on fire
Hide up in the spires
The flames kept dancing higher
They're playing our song
They're playing our song
They're getting it wrong
Ophelia in the creek
Caught up in the sticks
Some things can't be fixed
They're playing our song
They're playing our song
They're playing our song
03 Shade and Honey (04:08)
I could look in your face
For a thousand years
It's like a civil war
Of pain and of cheer
But if you was a horse
I could help you with your chains
I could ride you through the fields
By your fiery mane
May your shade be sweet
And float upon the lakes
Where the sun will be
Made of honey
I'll cry diamonds while you burn
'Cause no one here can save you
She's returning to the earth
But one day she'll be silver
Stars are dying in my chest
Until I see you again
She was born with the wings of a hawk
Now she combs her hair with blood
May your shade be sweet
And float upon the lakes
Where the sun will be
Made of honey
May your shade be sweet
And float upon the lakes
Another sun could be
Made of honey
May your shade be sweet
May your shade be sweet
And float upon the lakes
May your shade be sweet
05 Return to Me (03:18)
Arise oh brother mountain
Our hooves hammering your coils
The rivers carve out your hollows
With tears from me
Return to me
Return to me my love
Oh my love
Be still oh rusting river
Unlock her name from your grass
Unburden the pressures of fathoms
Of tears from me
Return to me
Return to me my love
Oh my love
Oh my love
Return to the clouds
Return in the caves
Return over valleys
Oh my love
Oh my love
Oh my love
10 It's Not So Hard (02:52)
To wake
Not swallowed by willows
Half eaten by widows
A new day's begun
Smile
'Cause nothing here matters
The spiders get fatter
Explode in the sun
Oh c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon
It's not so hard
Oh c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon
It's not so hard
It's not so hard
It's not so hard
To trap
The dead dogs of summer
Assaulting your slumber
Stay drunk ever more
Rise
Your jewelry will scatter
On deserts and saturns
The rings are on fire
Oh c’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon
It’s not so hard
C’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon
It’s not so hard
Oh c’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon
It’s not so hard
C’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon
It’s not so hard
It’s not so hard
It’s not so hard
It’s not so hard
11 Knives of Summertime (04:19)
A flock of knives cut the sky
And buried in my black eyes
And the clouds they bled in my head
And autumn rains soaked the dry beds
And the hurricane of her eyes
Willed away the knives
The knives of summertime
Summertime
The knives of summertime
Summertime
The knives of summertime
And I did swallow stained glass tears
Absorbed by the sun for many light years
And the fireflies in her hair
My red concertina's coming down the stairs
And the hurricane of her eyes
Willed away the knives
The knives of summertime
Summertime
The knives of summertime
Summertime
The knives of summertime
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Di zaireeka
Quando una delusione è cocente, non esistono più regole.
Scusa Dave (Fridmann), mi puoi dire dove hai nascosto Tom (Waits)?? E poi, Mark, non è che troppo sole a te fa male ed alla fine ti ha tolto l’ispirazione???
