Sparklehorse: Bird Machine (ANTI-) - review | Under the Radar Magazine
As posthumous, mop-up jobs go, Bird Machine is a fine effort.
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As posthumous, mop-up jobs go, Bird Machine is a fine effort.
After Mark Linkous’ death by suicide in 2010, his brother Matt finished the Sparklehorse album in progress thought to be lost forever. TW:
Posthumous album from Sparkleorse sees the late Mark Linkous' memory handsomely honoured by his family and collaborators
In the year before he died, Mark Linkous hit the studio with Steve Albini. Fourteen years later, those unreleased sessions reveal a bittersweet cocktail of beauty and torment.
For a decade, the last recordings of the psychedelic pop auteur behind Sparklehorse seemed lost or simply unusable. His family found and finished them.