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Ballad Of The Broken Seas (CD)

By: Isobel Campbell (Artist) and Mark Lanegan (Artist)

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Mark Lanegan Artist Snapshot:

While rock music is the domain of adolescents (real and imagined), Mark Lanegan's deep, whiskey-rough voice has always conveyed an air of menacing adulthood and troubled sophistication. He made a name for himself as the lead singer of Seattle grunge pioneers Screaming Trees, but even before their 1997 split, was releasing critically acclaimed solo albums, beginning with 1990's THE WINDING SHEET. Lanegan has focused his solo efforts on the rootsier end of the spectrum, writing and covering R&B, blues, and folk songs. He has also sung with riff-rockers Queens of the Stone Age, and duetted memorably with Scottish chanteuse Isobel Campbell.

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DISC 1 for Ballad Of The Broken Seas (CD) Album By Isobel Campbell (Artist) and M...
1   Deus Ibi Est
2   Black Mountain
3   False Husband, The
4   Ballad Of The Broken Seas
5   Revolver
6   Ramblin' Man
7   Come Walk With Me?, (Do You Wanna)
8   Saturday's Gone
9   It's Hard To Kill A Bad Thing
10   Honey Child What Can I Do?
11   Dusty Wreath
12   Circus Is Leaving Town, The
 

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Uncut (p.80) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] recalls Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra in the way it mingles dark and light, hard and soft, innocence and experience."

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Personnel include: Isobel Campbell (vocals, various instruments); Mark Lanegan (vocals); Jimmy McCulloch (guitar); Ross Hamilton (upright bass, bass guitar); David Robertson (congas, bodhran, percussion).

The inspired pairing of sweetie-pie (and former Belle & Sebastian chanteuse) Isobel Campbell with brooding ex-Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan has borne one excellent four-song EP (2005's RAMBLIN' MAN) and this full-length collection that includes those four plus eight others. As if to defy all the "Hazlewood/Sinatra" comparisons thrown at the EP, the pair bravely opens the album with their most unsettling and decidedly un-poppy song, "Deus Ibi Est," a Celtic-sounding march laced with Latin lyrics and a heavily religious theme, with vocal performances pitched somewhere between the Wicked Witch's guards and a bevy of singing nuns. From there, a variety of styles and approaches keeps things lively. The haunting folk ballad "Black Mountain" showcases Campbell's chiming voice, while the atmospheric "Saturday's Gone" makes for some rainy-day Gainsbourgian noir. As the main songwriter, this is mostly Campbell's show, but Lanegan's Marlboro-seasoned voice lends just the right valence to all the airy prettiness.

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