I’ve been travelling for a few days, so it wasn’t until just now that I came across the miserable news that Mark Linkous (aka Sparklehorse) died on Saturday.
A good friend introduced me to Good Morning Spider in an art class when I was seventeen, and since then Sparklehorse songs have soundtracked many moments of my life. For me Linkous was at his finest on his most understated, delicate numbers. I must have listened to Maria’s Little Elbows and Hey Joe a hundred times over while writing The Girl with Glass Feet. I’m really gutted about this news.
