Critic's Corner
Sparklehorse Sparkles on Posthumous Tracks
Wednesday’s shoe-gazing Grunge
Too much Elliott
Sparklehorse, Bird Machine Indie rock band Sparklehorse released Bird Machine, their newest and final album, on September 8th. It’s the first album the band has put out since the lead singer Mark Linkous died by suicide in 2010. The album itself was recorded in 2009 and was set to drop that year, but then disappeared. Mark’s younger brother Matt was sifting through his late-brother’s boxes of tapes when Matt found the name and track listing for the record. I've known about Sparklehorse for a while and there were a few songs of theirs that I loved, but I never really went so deep into their discography. When I heard Bird Machine I was definitely pleasantly surprised. Posthumous albums always worry me because it's really hard to understand somebody else's art. But the final product here doesn’t seem to stray at all from what Mark had in mind. His brother Matt, who seems like a legitimately sweet person, seemed to take into consideration what his brother would have wanted instead of …