Post Description

Artist: Mark Lanegan
Title: Straight Songs Of Sorrow
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: Heavenly Recordings
Genre: Singer/Songwriter
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 60:12
Total Size: 138 / 337 MB


Tracklist:

1. I Wouldn't Want To Say (05:46)
2. Apples From A Tree (01:55)
3. This Game of Love (04:48)
4. Ketamine (02:40)
5. Bleed All Over (03:35)
6. Churchbells, Ghosts (04:53)
7. Internal Hourglass Discussion (03:49)
8. Stockholm City Blues (03:38)
9. Skeleton Key (07:05)
10. Daylight In The Nocturnal House (03:05)
11. Ballad of A Dying Rover (04:36)
12. Hanging On (For DRC) (02:10)
13. Burying Ground (04:46)
14. At Zero Below (04:40)
15. Eden Lost And Found (02:46)

When considering any great work of art, be it a painting, a novel, or a piece of music, it’s natural to wonder what might have inspired it: ‘the story behind the song’. Mark Lanegan’s new album, Straight Songs Of Sorrow, flips that equation. Here are 15 songs inspired by a story: his life story, as documented by his own hand in his new memoir, Sing Backwards And Weep.

Straight Songs Of Sorrow combines musical trace elements from early Mark Lanegan albums with the synthesized constructs of later work. The meditative acoustic guitar fingerpicking – provided by Lamb Of God’s Mark Morton – on Apples From A Tree and Hanging On (For DRC) echo 1994’s Whiskey For The Holy Ghost. Yet one of that record’s touchstones was Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, echoed in the new album’s opener I Wouldn’t Want To Say, where Lanegan extemporises *à la Ballerina over musique concrète wave patterns generated by his latest favourite compositional tool, a miniature computer-synth called the Organelle.