So I haven't really been listening to a ton of music lately, work has been busy and I have been playing a lot more ultimate, so the time for music has evaporated. I have had the chance to listen to a bunch of NPR though and one feature that recently caught my eye was a streaming first listen to "Dark Night of the Soul," a collaboration between Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and who would have guessed it, David Lynch! In addition to a host of other guest vocalists, "Dark Night of the Soul" is a thick, sonically saturnine album that really is as good and engrossing as you would expect/hope it to be. Ranging from dark folk, to punkish elements and almost ambient dub, "Dark Night of the Soul" creates a landscape. In the spirit of Stephen Colbert, a tip of the cap to NPR for their steaming the album in its entirety and an infuriated wag of the finger to EMI who is blocking the physical release of this monster collaboration due to some copyright ruckus. I have no tracks to post from the album, but please head over to NPR and listen to it and then buy the David Lynch photo book and the blank CD-R that will be released instead of an actual CD. Large scale collaborations like this are the innovative music, especially music that pushes the preconstructed boundaries of what types of artists work together and now we have a large record label preventing such a work of art from being heard by the general public. Now I have to find alternative means of acquiring the album...
On a later note, here are a couple of songs I've found and enjoyed recently.
All Smiles - Our Final Roles as Birds (YSI) (filesavr)
Dem Hunger - Police Rasta (YSI) (filesavr)
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