Dark Night of the Soul to see the light of day?

Back in May 2009, EMI put out an injunction to stop the release of Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse’s musical accompaniment to the limited edition David Lynch photobook Dark Night of the Soul. EMI were citing the reason behind the block being Sparklehorse face Mark Linkous contract with the label , and the breach of that contract that would occur if the self released album hit the shelves. That and the fact that they were still pissed over Danger Mouse’s hacking up The Beatles’ White Album  and gluing it back together as a backing bed for Jay Z lyrics on hysteria inducing The Grey Album.

The Dark Night of the Soul package came out last May, but with a blank CD-R accompanying the Lynch book. The CD-R was embossed with "For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will."; an push from the musicians to use the disc to copy the “leaked” album from the net, and complete the set.

Well news is that we might just see the release of ‘DNOTS’ sometime soon, and that came from the mouth of the Mouse himself, Brian Burton. "The problems of last year are last year, so hopefully it will be out soon in June or something like that,". However, that comment made to the BBC came a few days before Mr Sparklehorse decided to cut his life short, so it could probably go either way.

So, if EMI decide to play ball, what can we expect? Well, the original package featured a limited edition (5000 copies) of the David Lynch book, hand numbered no less, so we’ll probably end up with a mass produced, less expensive hardback version. It’ll be nice, but it won’t be what the original idea was intended to be.

Below are some snatches from the Lynch book, and if you CLICK HERE, you can listen to Dark Night of the Soul right now.