Mark Lanegan Band - 'Here Comes That Weird Chill' (Beggars Banquet)
3/5
By: Clara Burtenshaw
As startlingly industrial and relentless as one might expect from a collaboration including the guitar genius of Josh Homme and bassist from QOTSA Nick Oliveri, live Stone Age member Mark Lanegan with his self-titled band invoke a dark partnership indeed.
'Methamphetamine Blues' is a track architected by carcinogen vocals over a background rhythm hammered down like molten iron being chiselled on a chain conveyor-belt and with Homme's guitar licks mirrored by white-trash female wails; the sound of chaos has never sounded so inspired or infectious.
Conversely, 'Message To Mine' features softened vocals and an introduction bearing more than a passing nod to the late Jeff Buckley. This is short-lived though, with an interim of the former cracked southern spark set against backing-vox and a guitar-solo so crisp that it effortlessly takes centre-stage above the voices. 'Skeletal History' pursues the same shady roots of 'Methamphetamine Blues' but with a brief acoustic interlude played by a red-right hand.
Sure enough, this EP conjures a bloody, bleak atmosphere that will chill the soul; untrustworthy, suspect and down right dirty. Just as you like it.
Artists in this article: Mark Lanegan Band
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