★★★★★
Mark Lanegan's career arc is actually quite fascinating. After some minor success in the early '90s with Screaming Trees, an arguably B-level grunge act, Lanegan has since become a successful alternative rock journeyman who at times spawned some brilliant collaborations. His work with Queens of the Stone Age, particularly on 2003's Songs for the Deaf, is some of the band's best work to date, and his 2008 project with the Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli, the Gutter Twins, was brooding in all the right...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-08-20
★★★★★
Tweet Peak-a-boo! A decade prior to the breakup of Screaming Trees in 2000, Mark Lanegan started releasing his crooner-soul-rock under his own name, working album by album to hone his skills and his voice and find the perfect match for both. As he approaches fifty years of age and prepares for the release of his ninth solo record, Phantom Radio in the fall, he is giving 1,500 fans a taste with the vinyl-only five-song EP, No Bells on Sunday, and it appears as though he may have overshot his...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-08-15
★★★★★
Tweet Peek-a-Boo! A decade prior to the breakup of Screaming Trees in 2000, Mark Lanegan started releasing his crooner-soul-rock under his own name, working album by album to hone his skills and his voice and find the perfect match for both. As he approaches fifty years of age and prepares for the release of his ninth solo record, Phantom Radio in the fall, he is giving 1,500 fans a taste with the vinyl-only five-song EP, No Bells on Sunday, and it appears as though he may have overshot his...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-08-13
★★★★★
The grunge-blues giant returns, now digging deeper grooves and - shock! - nu disco... To say that Mark Lanegan's reputation precedes him is a monumental understatement. Over a 25-year career, he's carved himself a profile as resolutely rock as any on Mount Rushmore - one that includes spells of homelessness and imprisonment and frequent rehab...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2012-03-06
★★★★★
Mark Lanegan is no stranger to lugubrious music, but with Blues Funeral, as the title suggests, the former Screaming Trees man has excelled himself. A collection of 12 sad, swampy and songs, this follow-up to 2004's Bubblegum may not be entirely bluesy in terms of musical style, but certainly is in terms of subject matter...
- recordcollectormag.com
2012-03-06
★★★★★
In the eyes (and ears) of certain sections of the music press, age counts for a lot. Last year's album from Tom Waits, Bad As Me, was critically lauded far and wide (including on this website). And rightly so - although it didn't exactly break new ground in Waits' oeuvre, it was of sufficiently high quality as to ensconce itself in the higher echelons of his body of work...
- www.noripcord.com
2012-02-23
★★★★★
It feels like a long wait since Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) released his last solo album, Bubblegum. In that time however he has released three albums with Isobel Campbell from Bell & Sebastian, one with Greg Dulli (Twilight Singers, Afghan Whigs) as the Gutter Twins, as well as significant collaborations with UNKLE, Soulsavers, Queens of the Stone Age, and Twilight Singers. Let it never be said that the man is lazy. In fact restlessness seems to be a constant motif in Lanegan's music...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2012-02-20
★★★★★
Mark Lanegan's addictions and inner turmoil are well documented throughout his catalogue. But one note of his brutal, weathered baritone will tell you everything you need to know about where he's been. Blues Funeral--his first solo record since 2004's Bubblegum--lays out a mix of stripped-down slow burners ("Bleeding Muddy Water," "St. Louis Elegy"), hard-boiled dance beats ("Ode to Sad Disco") and a touch of pop inspiration ("Quiver Syndrome"), sounding cleaner than Lanegan has for awhile...
- filtermagazine.com
2012-02-09
★★★★★
Possessing the finest album opener of recent times in the shudderingly malevolent 'The Gravedigger's Song', it would seem that the eight years since Lanegan last flew solo have provided the inspiration for songs of an astonishing calibre. This is a confident, bold and captivating record, and one which is dominated by that beguilingly ragged voice. Musical accompaniment includes turns from Josh Homme and Greg Dulli, with whom Lanegan previously worked as part of The Twilight Singers...
- www.clashmusic.com
2012-02-09
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