My favourite album: Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot by Sparklehorse

Continuing our series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same – Ally Carnwath finds a spark in this stunning debut album"Louder than a dirtbike" was how Mark "Sparklehorse" Linkous described an early musical epiphany – his first encounter with The Animals' The House of the Rising Sun. And when I first heard Sparklehorse's Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot, aged 15, I felt something similar.It wasn't that it was particular...

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