Pitchfork posted an interview today with Sparklehorse singer-songwriter Mark Linkous. Mark talks about what he’s been doing since the release of 2006’s Dreamt For Lightyears in the Belly of a Mountain, including working on a new record, and his upcoming collaboration with Danger Mouse (with Flaming Lips and Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys).

Personally, I think they should go with Sparklemouse…

Pitchfork: Well you could combine the first two and it could be Dangerspark or Mouseyhorse [laughs]. Are there plans going forward with it, or is it still in the “Wouldn’t it be cool if…” stage?

ML: Well, we thought “It would be cool if…,” but we kind of went in with no idea what the fuck we were doing, which is cool in a way. He had his own studio, and we’d just go in and I’d get some kind of glitchy rhythm going on my computer, which is the oldest Reactor program that exists. It’s like Reactor 1 where it can only run on OS 9 Classic. But it still has really cool sounds. So I’d get something going, and he’d say “Oh that sounds cool.” And whenever anything like that worked he’d add some ACID beat on top of that, and we’d just kind of build things.

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