History Trivia / Sparklehorse

* DiedDuringProduction: When Linkous died, he left Sparklehorse's fifth album in a state of near-completion. The album, ''Bird Machine'', was finished by Linkous' brother and sister-in-law, who were archiving his work, and was eventually released in September 2023.

* DiedDuringProduction: When Linkous died, he left Sparklehorse's fifth album in a state of near-completion. It has not yet seen release and it's unlikely that it will for some time.

* DevelopmentHell[=/=]ExecutiveMeddling: It took a whole year to release ''Dark Night of the Soul'' due to an incredible copyright issue with EMI Records, the reason for ever existing in the first place of which was never actually explained. In the meantime, the album leaked in full, and its [[RecordProducer producer]], Music/DangerMouse, had an interesting way of dealing with the copyright situation: The album was intended to be accompanied by a book of photographs by Creator/DavidLynch that were inspired by the music, so he started selling the photo book with a blank cd inside, with the disclaimer "For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will"

* AuthorExistenceFailure: When Linkous died, he left Sparklehorse's fifth album in a state of near-completion. It has not yet seen release and it's unlikely that it will for some time.

* DevelopmentHell / ExecutiveMeddling: It took a whole year to release ''Dark Night of the Soul'' due to an incredible copyright issue with EMI Records, the reason for ever existing in the first place of which was never actually explained. In the meantime, the album leaked in full, and its [[RecordProducer producer]], Music/DangerMouse, had an interesting way of dealing with the copyright situation: The album was intended to be accompanied by a book of photographs by Creator/DavidLynch that were inspired by the music, so he started selling the photo book with a blank cd inside, with the disclaimer "For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will"

* DevelopmentHell / ExecutiveMeddling: It took a whole year to release ''Dark Night of the Soul'' due to an incredible copyright issue with EMI Records, the reason for ever existing in the first place of which was never actually explained. The album's [[RecordProducer producer]], Music/DangerMouse, had an interesting way of trying to get around it: The album was intended to be accompanied by a book of photographs by Creator/DavidLynch that were inspired by the music, so he started selling the photo book with a blank cd inside, with the disclaimer "For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will"

* DevelopmentHell / ExecutiveMeddling: It took a whole year to release ''Dark Night of the Soul'' due to an incredible copyright issue with EMI Records, the reason for ever existing in the first place of which was never actually explained.