So much of the recent Sparklehorse is filled with vivid and strange imagery - lots of images of animals and nature. All that I can make up of it is that Mark Linkous is looking at the world with a fresh set of eyes, like a child discovering the wonders of the bog by jumping right in, in spite of the poisonous frogs. It's as though he's saying yes the world is weird and unexplainable, but that's what makes life wonderful. Probably makes sense under the context that Mark nearly died a while back after he accidently overdosed on prescription pills.
In a hotel room in London he awkwardly layed unconscious with his legs pinned under his body for 14 hours as a result, and went through numerous surgeries after that to correct damaged nerves in his leg. But he survived and has recouped all functions in his legs. So perhaps he feels he has a new lease in life, a second chance and is channeling his childhood to look at the world with hope despite it's unexplainable strangeness.
So much of the recent Sparklehorse is filled with vivid and strange imagery - lots of images of animals and nature. All that I can make up of it is that Mark Linkous is looking at the world with a fresh set of eyes, like a child discovering the wonders of the bog by jumping right in, in spite of the poisonous frogs. It's as though he's saying yes the world is weird and unexplainable, but that's what makes life wonderful. Probably makes sense under the context that Mark nearly died a while back after he accidently overdosed on prescription pills.
In a hotel room in London he awkwardly layed unconscious with his legs pinned under his body for 14 hours as a result, and went through numerous surgeries after that to correct damaged nerves in his leg. But he survived and has recouped all functions in his legs. So perhaps he feels he has a new lease in life, a second chance and is channeling his childhood to look at the world with hope despite it's unexplainable strangeness.