There are few things in this world that make my brain quiver more appreciatively than news of a new Mark Lanegan album. So let’s all get a -quiverin’, because Hawk is released this week – his latest collaboration with the lady we music cricket types are mysteriously obligated to label “Scottish chanteuse”, Isobel Campbell. That his work with Campbell tends to paddle indifferently around the more insipid depths of Lanegan’ s catalogue matters very little…
Album name: Broken Artist name: Soulsavers Genre: A Confused Shrug Released: August 17 2009 Label: V2 ZME Rating: 9/10 Website: Myspace I clearly don’t know about you – and let’s face it, you probably prefer it that way – but I’m not a particularly splendid example of a human being. You can tell by the kind of accusations that have been slung in my poxy, four-eyed face. No one’s ever verbally accosted me for giving…
An important figure of the 1990s electronic scene, Bomb The Bass has been very shy with new material, for the last couple of years. His latest, 2008 released album, “Future Chaos,” enticed a lot of fans and caused a lot of headaches with its constantly changing shelve arrival date. Finally, after two years of in-the-making, Future Chaos came out and a whole community of nostalgic fans rejoiced – most of them did anyway, since Tim…
Photo credit: Rockscope. Sadly, no cameras were allowed at the gig. The Academy, Dublin, Friday 16/1/09 For the uninitiated, The Gutter Twins are none other than Mr Mark Lanegan (former Screaming Trees frontman and mainstay of Queens of the Stone Age) and Greg Dulli, from the slightly lesser known but equally brilliant 1990s outfit The Afghan Whigs. Under the guise of the Gutter Twins, Lanegan and Dulli have collaborated to produce a sound unlike their…
Artist name: Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell Album name: Keep Me In Mind Sweetheart Label: V2 Records Gender: Alternative Rock Release date: December 8, 2008 ZMErating: 8/10 Website: www.myspace.com/marklanegan Comprising of leftover material from this year’s excellent Sunday at Devil Dirt, Keep Me In Mind Sweetheart continues where its predecessors left off – acting as a contemporary film noir soundtrack with Lanegan crooning like never before while the musically adept Campbell purrs around him. Opening…
My favorite release for this week, is “Saturnalia”, the debut album from behalf of two of the finest musicians of the ’90s: Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) and Greg Dulli (The Afghan Whigs), that together form The Gutter Twins. The two met for the first time in 1989, but it took them almost 15 years to make music together, as recordings for Saturnalia began at the beginning of 2003. Now, five years later, the album brings…
Wow; what a week! There’s so many remarkable artists releasing new records this week, that I don’t really know where to start. This week’s bombshell, without a doubt, is Nine Inch Nails latest record, “Ghosts I-IV,” that was subjected to a free digital download by the band, just last night. The album is a 36 track instrumental collection, that’s been planed from last year’s fall, but its sudden leakage wasn’t expect by anyone; anything familiar?….
We’ve posted, earlier this week, what new records are out at the moment; now it’s time for you to sample them, in their entirety for free and legally. If you like them, please buy the respective records. Underworld are back with their fifth LP Oblivion with Bells, their first one in five years actually. There aren’t significant changes in their sound, from their previous record, but it still delivers and provides some of the best…
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