"He was utterly beautiful," she says.

The collaborators listed on Mark Linkous’ five-years-a-comin’ new record read like the dream Christmas Card list of a US alt-rock fanatic.

Sparklehorse return with their first album for five years, plus they've a handful of Irish date on the cards.

Although Linkous has pioneered lo-fi melancholia, I’ve seen him in better form and remain unsurprised when an audience member is compelled to shout out,...

If you go out to the woods today, you just might run into Mark Linkous from SPARKLEHORSE. KIM PORCELLI holds the flashlight

This is a rich, elegiac, magical record: teeming with benevolent ghosts and strange, beautiful half-visions.

SPARKLEHORSE Good Morning Spider (Parlophone)