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Sparky Deathcap – Interview

Quirky singer-songwriter Sparky Deathcap, a man as comfortable spinning folky yarns and knocking up a caricature

Written by Eleanor Whalley



Sparky Deathcap is a twenty-something musician and artist from Cheshire, whose wry tales of love and loss are in turns hilarious and heartwrenching. You may have caught him recently supporting the likes of Los Campesinos! and Hot Club de Paris.

On songs like "Berlin Syndrome", guitars and handclaps loop and whirl around lyrics like, “Since then you just make cameos when I’m asleep/you’re the William Shatner of this elite genre of women that I have loved and lost,” creating a lo-fi landscape one that is simultaneously bleak and full of warmth. At times the songs are reminiscent of early Smog, when Bill Callahan wrote songs like he had a sense of humour and sometimes felt a bit awkward. As well as the recent Tear Jerky EP (available here) he maintains a brilliant cartoon blog at read more

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