Danger Mouse (aka one half of Gnarls Barkley) and Sparklehorse collaborated on an album called Dark Night of the Soul. Guest vocalists on the 13 song album include Wayne Coyne (of Flaming Lips), Black Francis, Iggy Pop, Gruff Rhys, Julian Casablancas, Nina Persson and Vic Chestnutt. Packaging was to include a 100+ page book of photographs by David Lynch, inspired by the music.

Well, Buddha knows why, but EMI Records has decided to scrap the release of the record. Contractual issues? Uncleared samples? Is it really scrapped or on indefinite hiatus? No one’s saying.

So Danger Mouse has decided to go ahead with the release anyway, in a sense. So you can buy the package, but instead of the album inside, there will be a blank CD-R labelled, “‘For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.”

The album has been streaming on the NPR web site and is, of course, available via the usual download sources.

I’m listening to it now and it fucking rules. Will probably buy the “CD” for the book of Lynch photos.

Hongkie Town
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