It's a Wonderful Life is the third studio album by American musical act Sparklehorse, released in the UK on June 11, 2001[1] and in the US on August 28, 2001[2] by record label Capitol/EMI.

[citation needed] Mark Linkous recorded his first two albums, Good Morning Spider and Vivadixesubmarinetransmissionplot, in a small room inside his Virginia farm.

After the release of those albums, however, "the guy who hired me left [Capitol]," Linkous told Free Williamsburg Online Magazine in 2002, and his record label discouraged the solo-production process.

The incident received a large amount of media coverage and was documented within several music magazines, including Rolling Stone and Spin.

It’s a Wonderful Life is generally considered to be indie rock, slowcore, and art rock, but also includes many significant elements of chamber pop ("Gold Day", "More Yellow Birds"), shoegaze and dream pop ("Piano Fire", "King of Nails", "Comfort Me"), chamber music ("It's a Wonderful Life", "Devil's New", "Babies on the Sun") and even industrial ("Dog Door").

All of the album's songs were made into music videos by various filmmakers, such as the Quay Brothers, Garine Torossian, Grant Gee, and Guy Maddin.