Wonderful collection. Wonderfully presented.
Yap, a whopping 32 wonderful tracks here – including 12 previously unreleased songs! – across either a double CD (housed in a handsome gatefold “tip-on” jacket, including a 44-page book comprising hand-written lyrics & rare archive photos) or a gorgeous Triple-LP Box-Set (with each LP in single pocket jackets within a heavy, tip-on slip case, with a 20-page book featuring the same attention to detail and extras as the CD release.)
As one of America’s great modern day vocalists and songwriters, Mark Lanegan has much in common with the timeless work of such legends as Fred Neil, Tim Hardin and Karen Dalton. The former frontman of Screaming Trees, collaborator with Kurt Cobain and Queens Of The Stone Age, half of a modern day Nancy & Lee with Isobel Campbell and, most commonly, solo artist, Lanegan is a man whose career has been defined by an unwillingness to sit still.
Light In The Attic are set to shine a spotlight on this great American performer and songwriter with the release of Has God Seen My Shadow? An Anthology 1989-2011.
Collecting Lanegan’s solo material for Sub Pop, Beggars and more plus 12 unreleased tracks, this is the archive treatment Mark has long deserved.
The 32 tracks shine a light on Mark’s rare talent, and span the singer’s entire career, from 1990’s debut album The Winding Sheet to a treasure trove of recent unreleased gems and feature such guests as PJ Harvey, Josh Homme and J Mascis.
His is a sound of grizzled vocals and dark melody, its lyrics chiseled out of late night thoughts and dark humor.
The collection is released in two sumptuous formats:
- a Double-CD edition with a gatefold, tip-on jacket and a 44-page booklet comprising hand-written lyrics and rare archive photos by Charles Peterson and Steve Gullick, and
- a Triple-LP box set, each LP in single pocket jackets within a heavy, tip-on slip case, with a 20-page book featuring the same attention to detail and extras as the CD release.
Mark Lanegan's "Has God Seen My Shadow?: An Anthology 1989-2011" (2014)
Anthology co-produced by Mark Lanegan
Double CD housed in a handsome gatefold “tip-on” jacket, including 44-pg book comprising hand-written lyrics & rare archive photos
Vinyl box set includes three “tip-on” jackets, housed in a custom “tip-on” slip case, with a 20-pg book comprising hand-written lyrics & rare archive photos
Includes 12 unreleased tracks
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This beautifully packaged anthology traces the former Screaming Trees frontman's journey toward becoming gothic Americana's own Man in Black. It's a role he's clearly grown into, navigating the dark waters between blackness, self-parody and beautiful songwriting with increasing aplomb.
The two CDs are full of trademark ruminations on death, religion and drunkenness (of the kind that sees him drinking "so much sour whiskey that I can't see"). However, there's love and even prettiness in Mirrored and Low, a lovely distant relative of the Velvet Underground's Pale Blue Eyes.
Along the way, he stretches his musical palette into flamenco and Celtic guitar and throws in the blackest of humour – lines such as "Don't mind being stoned, they say Jesus was" sound better delivered by his graveyard, deadpan vocal.
Of the 32 tracks – 12 unreleased – not one ups the pace beyond the funereal. Still, when cheers ring out for the closing, comically restarted live cover of Jackson C Frank's Blues Run the Game, he sounds perilously close to enjoying himself.
by Dave Simpson/ theguardian.com
Tracklisting
1. Bombed
2. One Hundred Days
3. Come To Me
4. Mirrored
5. Pill Hill Serenade
6. One Way Street
7. Kimiko's Dream House
8. Low
9. Resurrection Song
10. Shiloh Town
11. Creeping Coastline Of Lights
12. Lexington Slow Down
13. Last One In The World
14. Wheels
15. Mockingbirds
16. Wild Flowers
17. Sunrise
18. Carnival
19. Pendulum
20. The River Rise
21. Dream Lullabye
22. Leaving New River Blues
23. Sympathy
24. To Valencia Courthouse
25. A Song While Waiting
26. Blues For D (Vocal Version)
27. No Contestar
28. Big White Cloud
29. Following The Rain
30. Grey Goes Black
31. Halcyon Daze
32. Blues Run The Game (Live)
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