Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Present Dark Night of the Soul can be downloaded from Amazon.com for like $3.99 or something ridiculously affordable. Me being the out of control music collector that I am, I had to fork up the scratch for the lovely deluxe vinyl box version.
The box includes the album on heavy double vinyl, 2 CDs: The album and the instrumentals, 3 lobby cards, a poster, a photo, and a book. The book is a record-sized version of the original hardbound book of photos that was DNOTS's first format. Lobby cards? What the hell year is it, anyway?
I'm glad the record finally got an official release. It sounds great. It's a far cry from the low-quality source I used to have. It's just sad that two of the people involved had to die before getting to see this beautiful work see the light of day.
So now Dark Night enters the running to be my record of the year two years in a row. It's got some stiff competition though, what with Janelle Monáe and Arcade Fire and Tame Impala all putting out stellar releases this year. Guess we'll just have to see...
