Description
Label Review.
2017 album.
Our Overview.
We are thrilled to announce the release of Gargoyle, the new album from Mark Lanegan, which will be released on 28th April 2017 via Heavenly Recordings. He could be described as 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…!”
The 10-track LP features guest appearances from long-time collaborators Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Greg Dulli (The Afghan Whigs) and Duke Garwood. “I definitely feel like I’m a better songwriting than I was 15 years ago,” Lanegan explains in a press release. “But part of the way that I stay interested in making music is by collaborating with other people. When I see things through somebody else’s perspective it’s more exciting than if I’m left to my own devices.”
“Lanegan deserves elevation to the front rank of rock artists and Phantom Radio may be the album to finally force that shift.” The Independent.
“A beautiful set that balances Lanegan’s ongoing love of blues and folk with further explorations of the electronic terrain he explored on 2012’s Blues Funeral.” Uncut.
“A graceful record that brings out the very best in the gruff veteran.” NME.
“His voice, if anything, is getting better with age – grittier by the year and more soulful… There’s no faking this kind of quality.” Classic Rock.