SparklehorseBest Sparklehorse Albums Ranked

Good Morning Spider

pitchfork

9.1

“Mark Linkous’ second album as Sparklehorse shines an old light on impossible things. He found the purity of pop music and then lacerated it with the quirks and imperfections he cherished.”

Dreamt for Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain

pitchfork

8.3

“Five years in the making, Mark Linkous' latest was recorded piecemeal and features contributions from Tom Waits, Danger Mouse, and the Flaming Lips' Steve Drozd.”

Bird Machine

thelineofbestfit

8.0

“Bird Machine puts Mark Linkous’s Sparklehorse talents on glorious display once again”

It's a Wonderful Life

pitchfork

7.7

“Focus can be a difficult thing to maintain in art. Once you've begun creating something, it's easy to find yourself off on some tangent you never saw coming. It takes a certain amount of discretion, and often, a certain amount of objective distance, to decide which roads to continue down and which ones to abandon. In music, this is, of course, where producers come in. Their job is essentially to s”

Bird Machine

pitchfork

7.6

“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.”

Distorted Ghost - EP

pitchfork

4.0

“Sick of reviewers telling you things you don't want to know? Don't you just want them to get to the point? Well, now it's your turn to ask those direct, to-the-point questions you wish we'd ask ourselves before we go off about some trip we took to the Northwest or our adventures in college. I'd already stopped at two record stores, where I'd purchased a combined total of nine CDs. That I bought t”

It's a Wonderful Life

alexa

8.3

“every song on here was good but boy pick it up I’m getting tired I wish more of it was like Piano Fire and King Of Nails”