Mark Lanegan was best known as the vocalist for Screaming Trees, and also known as a member of Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins. He released 12 solo studio albums, as well as three collaboration albums with Isobel Campbell and two with Duke Garwood. He was known for his baritone voice, which was described as being "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather" and has been compared to Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, and Nick Cave.
There's a singer with a voice 50 fathoms deep and the consistency of vitrified teak, who has been known to go to extremes in search of a song. Across continents, over oceans, through multiple time zones. From West Hollywood to... Tunbridge Wells.
A long way - but Mark Lanegan knows the directions. Early in 2016, Mark was at home in Los Angeles, working on some ideas for what might turn into his next album. He wasn't too thrilled by what he was coming up with. Then he got an email from a friend, an English musician named Rob Marshall, thanking Mark for contributing to a new project he was putting together, Humanist. The pair first met in 2008, when Marshall's former band Exit Calm supported Soulsavers, who Mark was singing with at the time. Now Rob was offering to write Mark some music to return the favour. "I was like, Hey man, I'm getting ready to make a record, if you've got anything?'" Mark recalls. "Three days later he sent me *10 things… !"
Gatefold sleeve back vinyl
Tracklisting
1. Death's Head Tattoo
2. Nocturne
3. Blue Blue Sea
4. Beehive
5. Sister
6. Emperor
7. Goodbye to Beauty
8. Drunk On Destruction
9. First Day of Winter
10. Old Swan
