Dark Night of The Soul

AlbumJul 09 / 201013 songs, 45m 54s97%
Indie Rock
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7.4 / 10

Derailed by a murky copyright claim, Dark Night of the Soul is worth tracking down. Among the many guests are Wayne Coyne, Gruff Rhys, and James Mercer.

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If legal problems hadn’t prevented Dark Night Of The Soul from coming out in May 2009, it might have seemed like merely another in a long string of collaborations from Danger Mouse’s cooled-down sound-world—a more deliberately creepy variant of his work with Gnarls Barkley, Beck, and more recently, Broken Bells. (It…

9.0 / 10

Tragedy-shrouded instant classic escapes lawyers’ clutches

Though Dark Night of the Soul -- a collaboration featuring songs written and produced by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous accompanied by David Lynch's photography -- was supposed to come out in 2009, a legal dispute between Danger Mouse and EMI delayed its release by over a year.

9 / 10

It’s taken a year or so, but the legal eagles at EMI have thankfully managed to resolve the problems which stalled the release of this astonishing collaboration between the ’Mouse and the ’Horse

If Dark Night were created 20 years ago under the same circumstances, it may have never reached a single pair of ears.

9 / 10

Dark Night of the Soul is a collaboration between Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse, with David Lynch adding musical contributions as well as a complementary...

This unique collaboration stands as a fitting monument to two lost talents, says <strong>Dave Simpson</strong>

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4.0 / 5

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul review: Think about the world you love. Now think of where it wants to go.

7 / 10