00-isobel_campbell_and_mark_lanegan-ballad_of_the_broken_seas-2006-dnr.nfo
ARTIST : Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan
TITLE : Ballad Of The Broken Seas
LABEL : V2
STREET DATE : 00/00/2006
RiP DATE : 01/15/2007
AVG BiTRATE : 162 VBR KBps
ENCODER : Lame DNR (3.97b3) -V 2 --vbr-new
GRABBER : EAC
(#) (TRACK NAME) (TIME)
01. Deus Ibi Est 02:51
02. Black Mountain 03:08
03. The False Husband 03:52
04. Ballad Of The Broken Seas 02:41
05. Revolver 02:40
06. Ramblin Man 03:27
07. (Do You Wanna) Come Walk With Me? 03:26
08. Saturday's Gone 04:35
09. It's Hard To Kill A Bad Thing 02:52
10. Honey Child What Can I Do? 03:43
11. Dusty Wreath 03:44
12. The Circus Is Leaving Town 05:33
It's tempting to say something facile like "beauty meets
the beast" in writing about this collaboration between
former Belle & Sebastian member Isobel Campbell and Mark
Lanegan, best known for his work with Screaming Trees and
Queens of the Stone Age. After all, Campbell's voice is
all sweet angelic whisper while Lanegan's
whisky-and-nicotine rasp sounds like the product of ten
thousand nights in a barroom, but somehow these sweet and
sour elements come together with striking and impressive
results on Ballad of the Broken Seas. It helps that
musically these two are not far away from the same page;
the ghostly blues-based structures of Lanegan's Whiskey
for the Holy Ghost and The Winding Sheet may be starker
than Campbell's stuff with Belle & Sebastian or her solo
set Amorino, but they both appear to revel in the sort of
glorious sadness that draws beauty from melancholy, and
they find a dark and lovely common ground on this set of
songs. Campbell produced the album and wrote the bulk of
the material (though Lanegan wrote one song, the moody
and satisfying "Revolver"), and while it's no great
surprise that she comes up with superb material for
herself, she also knows what to make of Lanegan's
expressive rasp ("The Circus Is Leaving Town" is as good
a performance as he's ever recorded), and their numbers
together (especially "The False Husband" and the cover of
Hank Williams' "Ramblin' Man") recall what one hoped Nick
Cave and Kylie Minogue's duets on Murder Ballads would
sound like. Ballad of the Broken Seas is a superbly
crafted bit of late-night introspection that brings out
the best in both Lanegan and Campbell and adds new and
unexpected facets to their impressive repertoires.
by Mark Deming
www.isobelcampbell.com/
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