![]() ![]() TRACKS: Your Great Journey, Tesla's Hotel Room, These Golden Jewels, After We Shot The Grizzly, Flapping Your Broken Wings, Beautiful William, All the Time in Airports, White Lights, Bowling Alley Bar, Hunter Green, Our Blue Sky, Somewhere Else To Be Inspired by the age of great explorers- shipwrecks, laboratories,īowling alleys and drive-thrus. Wild Wood Darling, My Darling The Winding Corn Maze When You Whispered The Loneliness of Magnets June Bugs Ī Thousand Diamond Rings Love is Like The Petrified Forest TRACKS: Linger, Let me Linger Little Sparrows My Friend Spinning planets.) released by Brett and Rennie on their twentieth Tranqualized, June Bugs (alternate mix), One Way Up (4-track demo),Īn album of love songs (odes to a cement mixer, a praying mantis, TRACKS: The Lost Soul, When it Rains, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Snowball, Ain't No Grave, Little Buddy, Eleanor Rigby, A Plague of Humans, Famous Blue Raincoat, Drinking Beer on the Roof, Telephones and Telescopes, Lost Highway, Honcho, The Blizzard, What Does the Deep Sea Say, ![]() SCATTERED (2010) Self-released collection of demos, covers and orphaned songs. ![]() Lizard, Woodpecker, Gulls, Spider, Wildebeest TRACKS: Flies, Frogs, Eels, Octopus, Owls, Caterpillars, Glow Worm, Haunting music, emotionally charged, unique. Wild animals, tall tales, dark stories from American history. Guest performers on the record include David Gutierrez (mandolin, dobro), Alex McMahon (guitar, baritone guitar, pedal steel), and Jason Toth (drums). The album was recorded in the Sparks’ home studio at night “with only hawk moths listening” and features a rich tapestry of instrumentation which conjure images of the magical landscape of the Sparks’ New Mexico surroundings. Many tracks fix around the idea that light emanates from things we can’t see, including behind “The Red Door” in the empty hands of blackjack losers (“The Silver Light”), and amidst desert bones bleaching in the sun (“King of Dust”). The song “Gentlemen” is a tribute to William Crookes who built the first vacuum tube in 1875, hoping to detect spirits from alternate dimensions. “Gold” (the first song on the record) began when a bunch of twenty-dollar bills blew in Brett’s face in a parking lot dust storm. An epic western gothic masterpiece, Unseen draws from real life events. Unseen continues The Handsome Family’s embrace of things beyond easy view: the slow dive of the sun, enormous bugs awakening in thorny yards, sirens, and coyotes that cry out to the purple sky. Include 12 page, full-color booklet with all lyrics, as well as liner notes and art by Rennie Sparks.Īlso include info and art from CD, but are pressed in a limited edition transparent green vinyl (free mp3 download code included). ![]()
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