Bird Machine

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Pearis, Bill (October 2, 2023). "Indie Basement: Best Songs & Albums of September 2023". Indie Basement. BrooklynVegan . Retrieved October 9, 2023. Carnwath, Ally (September 3, 2023). "Mark Linkous's final Sparklehorse album: words of love and beauty from beyond the grave". The Guardian . Retrieved September 5, 2023.

Amen, John (September 8, 2023). "Sparklehorse: Bird Machine Review– talents return once more | Indie". Albums. The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved September 20, 2023. Melissa: I can’t say I have a favorite. But Mark knew how much I loved ‘Cruel Sun’ because I loved it when Mark sang like that. We would just sing together, like, ‘ CRUUUEEEEEL SUN!’

Matt: Total silence. That’s a heavy, heavy song. None of them were harder technically than any other one, but it was just an emotional thing. Everybody who worked on it cared about him a lot or was related to him. We kept it pretty tight. It was so strange hearing music of Mark’s I hadn’t heard, so emotional hearing his voice again,” Weatherhead said. “I was in.” Painbirds" on "Across The Great Divide: Music Inspired By The Band" (UNCUT Magazine CD issue 2005-04) (April 2005)

Kemp, Sam (August 31, 2021). "Thom Yorke's five greatest collaborations". Far Out Magazine . Retrieved February 28, 2022. Matt: Well, I truly believe that Mark was one of the greatest songwriters of his time. I just felt like the songs were beautiful. They were so Mark, and I felt that he wrote this music for people to hear. I came to the decision, over time, that people should hear it because they would never know. No one would know. Dark As A Dungeon" ( Merle Travis/ Johnny Cash cover) on "Cash Covered – Tribute To Johnny Cash" (MOJO Magazine CD issue 132) (November 2004)Een aantal songs waren bijna af, terwijl andere alleen maar voorzichtig aangemoedigd hoefden te worden – de toevoeging van subtiele instrumentatie en begeleidende zang in sommige gevallen, nog een zorgvuldige mix in andere – om te kunnen vliegen. “Het was alsof de liedjes het je lieten weten,” zegt Melissa. “Mark communiceerde deze liedjes. We deden gewoon ons best om ze over te brengen.”

And for Melissa, many of the lyrics on Bird Machine powerfully evoke who Mark was, both as an artist and a human being. “There’s something in this record that feels almost as if I’m being told an ancient story,” she says. “The visuals of angels dead drunk in the snow and stars being born, and then there’s this honesty and poetry in the lines of trying to find peace, working to stay… And the sweetness that you hear in those notes and in his voice, the gentleness of his spirit – that’s all Mark.”

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