LPs

WILDERNESS (2013) Available in CD or LP
Wild animals, tall tales, dark stories from American history.
Haunting music, emotionally charged, unique.

SONGS: Flies , Frogs, Eels, Octopus, Owls, Caterpillars, Glow Worm,
Lizard, Woodpecker, Gulls, Spider, Wildebeest

HONEY MOON (2009) Available in CD or LP
An album of love songs (odes to a cement mixer, a praying mantis,
spinning planets...) released by Brett and Rennie on their twentieth
wedding anniversary.

SONGS: Linger, Let me Linger; Little Sparrows; My Friend;
When You Whispered; The Loneliness of Magnets; June Bugs;
A Thousand Diamond Rings; Love is Like; The Petrified Forest;
Wild Wood; Darling, My Darling; The Winding Corn Maze

SINGING BONES (2003) LP on 'ghost green' vinyl
The album that gained a second life after True Detective
used track 5 for its main title theme. Songs of strange
dreams and forgotten paths.

SONGS: The Forgotten Lake, Gail with the Golden Hair,
24-Hour Store, The Bottomless Hole, Far From Any Road,
If the World Should End in Fire, A Shadow Underneath,
Dry Bones, Fallen Peaches, Whitehaven, Sleepy, The
Song of A Hundred Toads, If the World Should End in Ice

THROUGH THE TREES 20th Anniversary Edition (includes free bonus CD) (1998)
Songs of the wilderness, the shadows beneath the trees,
the creatures lurking in hollow logs

SONGS: Weightless Again, My Sister’s Tiny Hands,
Stalled, Where the Birch Trees Lean, Cathedrals, Down in the
Ground, The Giant of Illinois, Down in the Valley of Hollow Logs,
I Fell, The Woman Downstairs, Last Night I Went out Walking,
My Ghost, Bury Me Here

UNSEEN continues The Handsome Family’s embrace of things beyond easy view: the slow dive of the sun, enormous bugs awakening in thorny yards, sirens, and coyotes that cry out to the purple sky. An epic western gothic masterpiece, Unseen draws from real life events. “Gold” (the first song on the record) began when a bunch of twenty-dollar bills blew in Brett’s face in a parking lot dust storm. The song “Gentlemen” is a tribute to William Crookes who built the first vacuum tube in 1875, hoping to detect spirits from alternate dimensions. Many tracks fix around the idea that light emanates from things we can’t see, including behind “The Red Door” in the empty hands of blackjack losers (“The Silver Light”), and amidst desert bones bleaching in the sun (“King of Dust”).

The album was recorded in the Sparks’ home studio at night “with only hawk moths listening” and features a rich tapestry of instrumentation which conjure images of the magical landscape of the Sparks’ New Mexico surroundings. Guest performers on the record include David Gutierrez (mandolin, dobro), Alex McMahon (guitar, baritone guitar, pedal steel), and Jason Toth (drums).

Tracks:
01) Gold
02) The Silver Light
03) Back In My Day
04) Tiny Tina
05) Underneath The Falls
06) The Sea Rose
07) The Red Door
08) Gentlemen
09) King Of Dust
10) Green Willow Valley