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Legal dispute means Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse collaboration may not see light of day

The music for the David Lynch, Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse all-star collaboration Dark Night Of The Soul may never be released, due to an ongoing legal battle between Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) and his label, EMI.

As previously reported, the album - which features contributions from Julian Casablancas, Frank Black, Jason Lytle and Iggy Pop - was due to be released in the forthcoming months and was available for streaming as recently as yesterday. The stream remains up on NPR despite the new developments.

The CD release was due to be accompanied by a book of photographs shot by director David Lynch. The book will still be released, but will come with a blank CD-R which says "For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will."

A spokesperson for Danger Mouse said:

"The photographs provide a visual narrative for the music. They are compiled in a limited edition, hand-numbered, 100 plus page book which will come packaged with a blank, recordable CD-R.

Due to an ongoing dispute with EMI, Danger Mouse is unable to release the recorded music for Dark Night Of The Soul without fear of legal entanglement.

Danger Mouse remains enormously proud of Dark Night Of The Soul. He hopes that people are lucky enough to hear the music, by whatever means, and are as excited by it as he is."

Hmm

It's already seen the light of day if they've streamed it. People'll have ripped it from the stream already, and if they can't release it properly, it'll get leaked (nice subtle hint with the CD-R!) and eventually force the labels hand, no?

Yeah. Pretty much. It's a shame that it may not be released properly.

The "light of day" thing was a reference to the "Dark Night" in the title.

I hate EMI.

I sugggest a boycott. I will no longer illegally download their artists music until this is resolved.

Goodbye EMI

I would boycott the artists on EMI if they had any decent ones. Got my copy of the DNOTS album online.

The irony is that EMI bitch about piracy killing the record industry then they force people to illegally download music just to hear it! Fucking retards.

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