2001 It's a Wonderful Life [Limited Edition]    CD  Capitol 7243 5 33427 2 2 

1 It's a Wonderful Life   2:58 
2 Gold Day (feat. Nina Persson)   4:13 
3 Piano Fire (feat. PJ Harvey)   2:41 
4 Sea of Teeth   4:27 
5 Apple Bed (feat. Nina Persson)   4:54 
6 King of Nails   4:14 
7 Eyepennies (feat. PJ Harvey)   4:59 
8 Dog Door (feat. Tom Waits)   2:42 
9 More Yellow Birds   4:52 
10 Little Fat Baby   3:39 
11 Comfort Me   5:01 
12 Babies on the Sun   4:37 

It's a Wonderful Life is the third album by Virginian indie rock group Sparklehorse, released in 2001. The album features appearances by Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, John Parish, Nina Persson, Vic Chesnutt, and Dave Fridmann

Rolling Stone (8/30/01, p.122) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Slow and elegiac....The music is stately and deep as good loam, built around a few measures repeated stolidly with a kind of back-country resignation....peculiarly evocative."

Spin (10/01, p.127) - 6 out of 10 - "...A thick candy-and-sandpaper shell of weird old keyboards, strings, and liberally applied distortion concealing Dave Fridmann's frail Virginia murmur and surreal images..."

Q (7/01, p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Excellent....combining droll lyrical insights with various permutations of guitar, keyboards, drums and electronica..."

Alternative Press (10/01, p.100) - 7 out of 10 - "...An enchanting record..."

Magnet (12-1/02, p.57) - Included in Magnet's "20 Best Albums of 2001".

CMJ (9/3/01, p.5) - "...This is a mood record for sure - but one that's not without its mood swings..."

Mojo (Publisher) (7/01, p.98) - "...Among America's modern primitives Mark Linkous is close to pre-eminent."

NME (Magazine) (12/29/01, p.59) - Ranked #22 in NME's 50 "Albums Of the Year 2001".

NME (Magazine) (6/9/01, p.40) - 8 out of 10 - "...A wonderful record...of backwood blues....Every moment thrums with micro-activity..."

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