Sparklehorse: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Paul Morley, Sunday Telegraph, 10 June 2007
STOP ME if you've heard this one before. It's a story about Sparklehorse, the one mind band who play a short, bitter-sweet set at the Shepherds Bush Empire which churns between discreet moth eaten folk rock and rustic trance.
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