Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain is the fourth studio album by Sparklehorse released on September 25, 2006 by Astralwerks Records.

After the release of 2001's It's a Wonderful Life, Linkous slowly began recording the tracks that would become Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain at his Static King Studio in North Carolina.

The track "Dreamt for Lightyears in the Belly of a Mountain" was originally released in 2001 under the title "Maxine" on both the LP version of It's a Wonderful Life and on the Gold Day EP.

[2] Linkous later said that he "loved that image from the first time I saw it, and I just knew that was going to be the cover of the next album... {Pokorny} really has a great sense of realizing imagery from the music he listens to.

"[2] The album garnered mostly positive reviews[9] (notably from Pitchfork Media, Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly)