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Mark Lanegan Band

Blues Funeral

If Death were a man of blood and bone, romantic notions would lead a wager that he’d have a voice akin to Mark Lanegan’s – hypnotically magnetic, a whiskey-in-the-ashtray grit with supernatural depth.

Lanegan’s first solo output since 2004’s excellent Bubblegum. While never quite stepping out from under the shroud of lonely-campfire isolation, the album runs a stylistic gamut, leaping between ominous groove-rock and 80s synth-melancholia with casual confidence and varying influence. The night-drive anthem of Grey Goes Black leans on an eerie early Jonny Greenwood riff, enjoying an emotive solo before a drum machine supplants the kit with an understated yet urgent breakbeat.
A vital component of the man’s magic is in his unique vocal and timing arrangements, accentuation anomalies within his gravel-worn leather baritone.

Tracklist

• 1- The Gravedigger’s Song
  2 - Bleeding Muddy Water
  3 - Gray Goes Black
  4 - St. Louis Elegy
  5 - Riot in My House
  6 - Ode to Sad Disco
  7 - Phantasmagoria Blues
  8 - Quiver Syndrome
  9 - Harborview Hospital
  10 - Leviathan
  11 - Deep Black Vanishing Train
  12 - Tiny Grain of Truth