Mark Lanegan
Bubblegum
Boomkat Product Review:
Remastered for its 20th anniversary, Mark Lanegan's sixth solo album features two collaborations with PJ Harvey, and contributions from Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri, The Afghan WHigs' Greg Dulli, and Guns N'Roses' Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin.
One of Lanegan's most successful solo releases, 'Bubblegum' was released in 2004 and fully departs from his old band the Screaming Trees' pebbly grunge. Filled with bleak, bluesy death ballads that recall the gravel-voiced rocker's failed romances and painful relationship with drugs, the album also takes plenty of production risks, layering howling feedback, angular post-punk riffs and blown-out drum machine loops. 'Methamphetamine Blues' is an obvious highlight, a bar room stomper that weaves Molly MgGuire's chaotic, soulful backing vocals through Lanegan's hoarse reflections. "I'm rolling just to keep on rolling," he laments over a crunchy, downtempo stomp.
The PJ Harvey duets are fitting, too - Harvey's low, energetic voice perfectly melds with Lanegan's, almost too well on the upbeat 'Hit the City', but shining perfectly on the country-fried 'Come to Me'. Elsewhere, there's the psychedelic blur of 'Can't Come Down' - a druggy haze of backwards strings and double-time drum loops - and the distorted excess of 'Driving Death Valley Blues' to sink yr teeth into.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Remastered for its 20th anniversary, Mark Lanegan's sixth solo album features two collaborations with PJ Harvey, and contributions from Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri, The Afghan WHigs' Greg Dulli, and Guns N'Roses' Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin.
One of Lanegan's most successful solo releases, 'Bubblegum' was released in 2004 and fully departs from his old band the Screaming Trees' pebbly grunge. Filled with bleak, bluesy death ballads that recall the gravel-voiced rocker's failed romances and painful relationship with drugs, the album also takes plenty of production risks, layering howling feedback, angular post-punk riffs and blown-out drum machine loops. 'Methamphetamine Blues' is an obvious highlight, a bar room stomper that weaves Molly MgGuire's chaotic, soulful backing vocals through Lanegan's hoarse reflections. "I'm rolling just to keep on rolling," he laments over a crunchy, downtempo stomp.
The PJ Harvey duets are fitting, too - Harvey's low, energetic voice perfectly melds with Lanegan's, almost too well on the upbeat 'Hit the City', but shining perfectly on the country-fried 'Come to Me'. Elsewhere, there's the psychedelic blur of 'Can't Come Down' - a druggy haze of backwards strings and double-time drum loops - and the distorted excess of 'Driving Death Valley Blues' to sink yr teeth into.
Boomkat Product Review:
Remastered for its 20th anniversary, Mark Lanegan's sixth solo album features two collaborations with PJ Harvey, and contributions from Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri, The Afghan WHigs' Greg Dulli, and Guns N'Roses' Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin.
One of Lanegan's most successful solo releases, 'Bubblegum' was released in 2004 and fully departs from his old band the Screaming Trees' pebbly grunge. Filled with bleak, bluesy death ballads that recall the gravel-voiced rocker's failed romances and painful relationship with drugs, the album also takes plenty of production risks, layering howling feedback, angular post-punk riffs and blown-out drum machine loops. 'Methamphetamine Blues' is an obvious highlight, a bar room stomper that weaves Molly MgGuire's chaotic, soulful backing vocals through Lanegan's hoarse reflections. "I'm rolling just to keep on rolling," he laments over a crunchy, downtempo stomp.
The PJ Harvey duets are fitting, too - Harvey's low, energetic voice perfectly melds with Lanegan's, almost too well on the upbeat 'Hit the City', but shining perfectly on the country-fried 'Come to Me'. Elsewhere, there's the psychedelic blur of 'Can't Come Down' - a druggy haze of backwards strings and double-time drum loops - and the distorted excess of 'Driving Death Valley Blues' to sink yr teeth into.
Boomkat Product Review:
Remastered for its 20th anniversary, Mark Lanegan's sixth solo album features two collaborations with PJ Harvey, and contributions from Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri, The Afghan WHigs' Greg Dulli, and Guns N'Roses' Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin.
One of Lanegan's most successful solo releases, 'Bubblegum' was released in 2004 and fully departs from his old band the Screaming Trees' pebbly grunge. Filled with bleak, bluesy death ballads that recall the gravel-voiced rocker's failed romances and painful relationship with drugs, the album also takes plenty of production risks, layering howling feedback, angular post-punk riffs and blown-out drum machine loops. 'Methamphetamine Blues' is an obvious highlight, a bar room stomper that weaves Molly MgGuire's chaotic, soulful backing vocals through Lanegan's hoarse reflections. "I'm rolling just to keep on rolling," he laments over a crunchy, downtempo stomp.
The PJ Harvey duets are fitting, too - Harvey's low, energetic voice perfectly melds with Lanegan's, almost too well on the upbeat 'Hit the City', but shining perfectly on the country-fried 'Come to Me'. Elsewhere, there's the psychedelic blur of 'Can't Come Down' - a druggy haze of backwards strings and double-time drum loops - and the distorted excess of 'Driving Death Valley Blues' to sink yr teeth into.
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20th Anniversary Re-master
Boomkat Product Review:
Remastered for its 20th anniversary, Mark Lanegan's sixth solo album features two collaborations with PJ Harvey, and contributions from Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri, The Afghan WHigs' Greg Dulli, and Guns N'Roses' Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin.
One of Lanegan's most successful solo releases, 'Bubblegum' was released in 2004 and fully departs from his old band the Screaming Trees' pebbly grunge. Filled with bleak, bluesy death ballads that recall the gravel-voiced rocker's failed romances and painful relationship with drugs, the album also takes plenty of production risks, layering howling feedback, angular post-punk riffs and blown-out drum machine loops. 'Methamphetamine Blues' is an obvious highlight, a bar room stomper that weaves Molly MgGuire's chaotic, soulful backing vocals through Lanegan's hoarse reflections. "I'm rolling just to keep on rolling," he laments over a crunchy, downtempo stomp.
The PJ Harvey duets are fitting, too - Harvey's low, energetic voice perfectly melds with Lanegan's, almost too well on the upbeat 'Hit the City', but shining perfectly on the country-fried 'Come to Me'. Elsewhere, there's the psychedelic blur of 'Can't Come Down' - a druggy haze of backwards strings and double-time drum loops - and the distorted excess of 'Driving Death Valley Blues' to sink yr teeth into.
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Red Vinyl. 20th Anniversary Re-master
Boomkat Product Review:
Remastered for its 20th anniversary, Mark Lanegan's sixth solo album features two collaborations with PJ Harvey, and contributions from Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri, The Afghan WHigs' Greg Dulli, and Guns N'Roses' Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin.
One of Lanegan's most successful solo releases, 'Bubblegum' was released in 2004 and fully departs from his old band the Screaming Trees' pebbly grunge. Filled with bleak, bluesy death ballads that recall the gravel-voiced rocker's failed romances and painful relationship with drugs, the album also takes plenty of production risks, layering howling feedback, angular post-punk riffs and blown-out drum machine loops. 'Methamphetamine Blues' is an obvious highlight, a bar room stomper that weaves Molly MgGuire's chaotic, soulful backing vocals through Lanegan's hoarse reflections. "I'm rolling just to keep on rolling," he laments over a crunchy, downtempo stomp.
The PJ Harvey duets are fitting, too - Harvey's low, energetic voice perfectly melds with Lanegan's, almost too well on the upbeat 'Hit the City', but shining perfectly on the country-fried 'Come to Me'. Elsewhere, there's the psychedelic blur of 'Can't Come Down' - a druggy haze of backwards strings and double-time drum loops - and the distorted excess of 'Driving Death Valley Blues' to sink yr teeth into.
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