“It’s a really old recording,” the band’s braintrust, Mark Linkous, admitted to Swizzle Stick in 1999. Yet Sparklehorse’s music aims to eschew convention, which is one reason why the accessible sheen of “Happy Man” is obscured. Plangent guitars also unfurl behind a bracing, desperate chorus (“All I want is to be a happy man”), reinforcing the song into a sturdy rock anthem. The vocals fade in and out before finally sharpening into focus near the end of the second verse, like a Polaroid photo finally gaining clarity. “Chaos Of The Galaxy” hews toward warm, burbling organ that sounds like a hymn before the pummeling power-pop gem “Happy Man” arrives in a cloud of static, as if the song is caught up in the netherworld between radio frequencies. The poppiest moment on Sparklehorse’s album Good Morning Spider, “Chaos Of The Galaxy/Happy Man,” is a study in contrasts.
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