Straight Songs Of Sorrow
New Mark Lanegan album! With guest appearances from Greg Dulli, Warren Ellis, John Paul Jones & more

Straight Songs Of Sorrow

Mark Lanegan

€ 27,95
  • 2 x LP
Label
Heavenly Recordings

Description

Mark Lanegan's new album, Straight Songs Of Sorrow, features guest appearances from Greg Dulli, Warren Ellis, John Paul Jones, Ed Harcourt and more .... 

‘Straight Songs Of Sorrow’ combines musical trace elements from early Mark Lanegan albums with the synthesized constructs of later work. The meditative acoustic guitar fingerpicking – provided by Lamb Of God’s Mark Morton – on ‘Apples From A Tree’ and ‘Hanging On (For DRC)’ echo 1994’s ‘Whiskey For The Holy Ghost’. Yet one of that record’s touchstones was Van Morrison’s ‘Astral Weeks’, echoed in the new album’s opener ‘I Wouldn’t Want To Say’, where Lanegan extemporises à la Ballerina over musique concrète wave patterns generated by his latest favourite compositional tool, a miniature computer-synth called the Organelle. The lyric clings onto the music, emulating queasy momentum: “Swinging from death... to revival.”

Tracklist

A

  • 1.I Wouldn't Want To Say05:46
  • 2.Apples From A Tree01:55
  • 3.This Game Of Love04:47
  • 4.Ketamine02:40

B

  • 1.Bleed All Over03:35
  • 2.Churchbells, Ghosts04:53
  • 3.Internal Hourglass Discussion03:48
  • 4.Stockholm City Blues03:38

C

  • 1.Skeleton Key07:05
  • 2.Daylight In The Nocturnal House03:05
  • 3.Ballad Of A Dying Rover04:36

D

  • 1.Hanging On (For DRC)02:09
  • 2.Burying Ground04:46
  • 3.At Zero Below04:40
  • 4.Eden Lost And Found02:46

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