Featuring an all-star cast of vocalists, the multimedia collaboration between David Lynch, Danger Mouse, and Sparklehorse finally receives an official release today.
Guests on the album include the Flaming Lips, Super Furry Animals singer Gruff Rhys, Julian Casablancas, Iggy Pop, and Danger Mouse’s Broken Bells bandmate James Mercer. Lynch himself sings on two tracks, as well as contributing dozens of haunting photographs for a companion book available in the deluxe edition.
While the album was originally ready to go last year, label issues caused indefinite delays regarding when, or if, it would finally appear. Its release this week is bittersweet, as it now serves as an epitaph for one of its contributors, Vic Chesnutt, as well as one of its masterminds, Mark Linkous (aka Sparklehorse), both of whom took their own lives since the music’s initial appearance in 2009.
Visit the official Dark Night of the Soul website, listen to KCRW’s brand new interview with Danger Mouse and David Lynch, check out an exhibition of images and music from the project in NYC, become a fan on Facebook, and buy the album
or the deluxe box set
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Click through below to view a gallery of Lynch’s photos from the project.
David Lynch, Little Girl #1
David Lynch, Revenge #3
David Lynch, Just War #3
David Lynch, Dark Night of the Soul #3
David Lynch, Grim Augury #1
David Lynch, Insane Lullaby #4