Saturnalia (CD)

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• Release Date: March 4, 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sub Pop Records (USA)
• UPC: 098787076127
• WAPI (Tower ID): 111807587
• Average Customer Review:    (1 customer review)
• Tower.com Sales Rank: #18503 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #6976 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
• #4130 in General Rock & Pop (See Top 100 General Rock & Pop Bestsellers)

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Spin (p.96) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hey're both versed in meaty riffs, acoustic drama, noirish electronics, and a nice heavy backbeat."
Uncut (p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "With Lanegan at his stentorian best and Dulli in confessional mode, SATURNALIA is a feast..."
Alternative Press (p.160) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[O]n tracks like 'God's Children,' the cosmos align and Dulli's and Lanegan's grizzled harmonies combine with stunning clarity."
No Depression (p.69) - "Their collaboration is the result of opposing strengths: Lanegan's sludge-rock inclinations and Dulli's sensual soul, which together examine both the horrors and the splendor of primal introspection."
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.48) - "It has a gravity and a weight that aches with poignancy and experience, and is carried through by songs that are beautifully crafted with natural authority and natural light."
Q (Magazine) (p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Squelching beats and breaks underpin Saturnalia, an air of woozy menace pervading 'Seven Stories Underground' and 'All Misery/Flowers,' bringing to mind Massive Attack playing gothic blues."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lanegan's never sounded so powerfully bereft as on purgatorial blues 'All Misery'..."
Blender (Magazine) (p.79) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[B]rooding, bluesy rock -- a worthy soundtrack for those dark, whiskey-soaked nights of the soul and the regret-filled mornings after."
Harp (magazine) (p.100) - "Like a searing cross between 'Gimme Shelter' and 'Kashmir,' a song like 'The Stations' rises as it rings, its singed guitars and rolling rhythms episodically bolstering down and at once lifting their talk of the godly and the pleading."
Paste (magazine) (p.72) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "'Seven Stories Underground' builds on rough-cut Tom Waits-like percussion. 'Each to Each' uses funkier beats and strings."

The Gutter Twins: Greg Dulli (vocals, guitar, guitars, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, organ, Mellotron, keyboards, bass instrument, bass guitar, drums, congas, percussion); Mark Lanegan (vocals).

Additional personnel: Dave Rosser (vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin, organ, bass instrument); Scott Ford (vocals, bass instrument); Greg Wieczorek (vocals, drums, percussion); Jen Turner, Joseph Arthur, Martina Topley-Bird (vocals); Mathias Schneeberger (guitar, harmonium, organ, Mellotron, bass instrument, drums); Jeff Klein (guitar, organ, programming); Mario Lalli (guitar, bass instrument); David Catching, Troy Van Leeuwen (guitar); Rick G. Nelson (violin, viola, cello); Petra Haden (violin); Simone Vitucci (cello); Quintron (organ); Natasha Shneider (synthesizer, sequencer); Eddie Nappi (bass instrument, drums); Andy Preen (drums, percussion); Cully Symington, Norm Block , Brian Young (drums).

The Gutter Twins is a project fronted by Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan, the former leaders of the seminal indie rock acts Afghan Whigs and Screaming Trees, respectively. Like the music made by Dulli and Lanegan's two past bands, the sound on SATURNALIA, the Gutter Twins debut, is passionate, moody, guitar-driven, and intense.

Yet SATURNALIA is directly reminiscent of neither the Whigs' punchy alt rock nor the Trees' psychedelic grunge. Instead, the Gutter Twins lead listeners down a dark, swirling path of minor key atmospherics, haunting harmonies, and harrowing confessionals. An album better suited to headphones and late-night speculation than to big speakers and headbanging, SATURNALIA is a shadowy, melancholic treat from two of rock's cult heroes.

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