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LP – Black Vinyl.

Lanegan‘s chief compositional tool on Phantom Radio was his phone specifically an app called Funk Box. I didnt bother to hook up my 909 and 808 this time, he says, because the app had em. Id write drum parts with it then add music with the synthesizer or the guitar. The album grew organically from these synthetic roots, taking in Marks ongoing love of Krautrock and also an 80s new wave show on Sirius satellite radio, his favoured aural companion as he drives around Los Angeles. They have a few good shows but the 80s one in particular I like, he says. Thats the music that was happening when I started making music. And although the Trees drew on Nuggets psychedelia, 13th Floor Elevators and Love, we were actually listening to Echo And The Bunnymen, Rain Parade, the Gun Club. A lot of British post-punk. We loved that stuff. I just waited until I was in my late forties before I started ripping it off.

Lanegans generous collaborative spirit sees him deliver an excellent co-write with British guitarist Duke Garwood, with whom he made last years dustbowl-desolate Black Pudding, and who now offers the music for I Am The Wolf, a Lanegan signature tune. Marks favourite song on the album, meanwhile, is Torn Red Heart, an intensely tender meditation for a broken heart thats like The Velvet Undergrounds Pale Blue Eyes orchestrated by Angelo Badalamenti. He also has a special mention for Floor Of The Ocean, which balances sheer catchiness with a deceptively bleak lyrical reflection on a life lived on the hard shoulder: Clear eyes, cant avoid the searchlight/Hope that they dont find me/Find me where Im lying.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Harvest Home
2. Judgement Time
3. Floor Of The Ocean
4. The Killing Season
5. Seventh Day

Side B
1. I Am The Wolf
2. Torn Red Heart
3. Waltzing In Blue
4. The Wild People
5. Death Trip To Tulsa