Just a month ago, the music world was abuzz with news about the new collaboration between Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse with guest indie all-stars from Frank Black, Iggy Pop, and Vic Chestnutt (who I once saw live in NYC--yow) to James Mercer from The Shins, Julian Casablancas from The Strokes, Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips, and Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals.
Now, thanks to a legal dispute with EMI, Dark Night of the Soul will be released as a blank CD! I'm not kidding.
For $50, you get a recordable CD, a friendly note encouraging you to download the album via less than legal means, and an accompanying limited-edition 100-page book of photography and album poster from David Lynch (who also sings two songs on the album). You can also buy the CD-R and just the poster for $10. Both are available at the official Web site.
If downloading the album from an illegal file-sharing network gives you the heebie-jeebies, you can, for now at least, listen to the entire album through an approved stream at NPR.
An art exhibit of 50 of David Lynch's photos from the CD book will be shown May 30-July 11 at LA's Michael Kohn Gallery.
Read more about the drama at The Guardian.
Here's the playlist. And fwiw, the album is killer. Seriously.
1) "Revenge" featuring Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips
2) "Just War" featuring Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals
3) "Jaykub" featuring Jason Lytle of Grandaddy
4) "Little Girl" featuring Julian Casablancas of The Strokes
5) "Angel's Harp" featuring Black Francis (Frank Black from The Pixies)
6) "Pain" featuring Iggy Pop
7) "Star Eyes (I Can Catch It) featuring David Lynch
8) "Everytime I'm with You" featuring Jason Lytle
9) "Insane Lullaby" featuring James Mercer of The Shins
10) "Daddy's Gone" featuring Nina Persson of The Cardigans
11) "The Man Who Played God" featuring Suzanne Vega
12) "Grain Augury" featuring Vic Chestnutt
13) "Dark Night of the Soul" featuring David Lynch
Listen to all of the tracks at YouTube or NPR. Here's track 4.
