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 | Sunday at Devil Dirt - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Publisher: V2
Released on 12 May 2008
List Price: £11.99
He has a voice made of vintage leather, probably sprinkles tobacco on his cornflakes, cut his rock-incisors in the Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age and is currently also one half of post-grunge supergroup The Gutter Twins. She has a voice like a mild summer breeze whistling through a meadow and once drizzled aural honey over Belle & Sebastian's twee indie-pop. It's like a marriage made from a Hell's Angel and waiflike virgin choirgirl--you can just imagine the disparaging looks from the vicar. But as Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan renew the vows originally made on a porch swing with 2006's well received bout of twilight Americana, Ballad of the Broken Seas, this follow-up can be brandished as proof that opposites don't only attract, but can grow together even as they grow apart. See, on Sunday at Devil Dirt Lanegan's weighty presence expands to a point where it obscures the moon--especially on "The Raven" and "Back Burner" where his Johnny Cash/Tom Waits... Read More
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| Seafaring Song | Raven | Salvation | Who Built The Road |
| Come On Over (Turn Me On) | Back Burner | Flame That Burns | Shotgun Blues |
| Keep Me In Mind Sweetheart | Something To Believe | Trouble | Sally Don't You Cry |
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