DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL Gets NPR Pre-Release Streaming

     MUSIC NEWS - NPR Music is streaming the entire Dark Night of the Soul album as part of their “Exclusive First Listen” series beginning today, May 14, weeks before it officially releases in July.  The long-rumored Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and David Lynch project is available for free, on-demand listening at NPR.org.  The entire series is available at NPR.org/FirstListen. 

Dark Night of the Soul features music by artist/producer Danger Mouse and experimental rockers, Sparkelhorse, with contributions from a dozen musicians. The advance stream on NPR Music reveals the impressive list of artists who play on the album, including Iggy Pop, The Flaming Lips, The Pixies’ Frank Black, Suzanne Vega, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, The Shins’ James Mercer and Scott Spilane of Neutral Milk Hotel and The Gerbils. The album will also be packaged with a book of photos taken by filmmaker David Lynch (buy Lynch directed films on dvd).  Buy the hardcover Lynch book seperately, below !

 The complete track listing (see below) and album information is available at NPR Music, where there are also extensive archives of concerts, interviews and reviews with many of the artists involved with the album.  NPR Music is also currently offering a "First Listen" to John Vanderslice's album Romanian Names.

UPDATE 5/15/09- Due to legal squabbles with EMI, a cd release of DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL seems unlikely.  Instead, Waxploitation has issued the following statement (below) about a blank CD-R release instead, with full artwork...

Dark Night Of The Soul Track List-
01 Revenge (w/ The Flaming Lips)
02 Just War (w/ Gruff Rhys)
03 Jaykub (w/ Jason Lytle)
04 Little Girl (w/ Julian Casablancas)
05 Angel’s Harp (w/ Frank Black)
06 Pain (w/ Iggy Pop)
07 Star Eyes (I Can’t Catch It) (w/ David Lynch)
08 Everytime I’m With You (w/ Jason Lytle)
09 Insane Lullaby (w/ James Mercer of The Shins)
10 Daddy’s Gone (w/ Nina Persson)
11 The Man Who Played God (w/ Suzanne Vega)
12 Grim Augury (w/ Vic Chestnutt)
13 Dark Night Of The Soul (w/ David Lynch)

WAxPLOITATION statement-

“Danger Mouse’s new project Dark Night Of The Soul consists of an album length piece of music by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and a host of guest vocalists, along with a collection of original David Lynch photography inspired by and based on the music.

The photographs, which provide a visual narrative for the music, are compiled in a limited edition, hand numbered 100+ page book which will now come with a blank, recordable CD-R. All copies will be clearly labeled: ‘For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.’

Due to an ongoing dispute with EMI, Danger Mouse is unable to release the recorded music for Dark Night Of The Soul without fear of being sued by EMI.

Danger Mouse remains hugely proud of Dark Night Of The Soul and hopes that people lucky enough to hear the music, by whatever means, are as excited by it as he is.”