Straight Songs of Sorrow

by Mark Lanegan

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davidwh It really grew on me this album... brutally honest lyrics and great music. Favorite track: At Zero Below.

Celt666 Mark Lanegan is timeless! 🤘

Carsten Pieper The late great Mark Lanegan's final hoorah. As eclectic as most of his later work but his voice keeps it all together.

It helps to free oneself from expectations what "the real Mark Lanegan" had to sound like ;-) Favorite track: Burying Ground.

𝔩𝔬𝔲𝔡-𝔮𝔲𝔦𝔢𝔱-𝔩𝔬𝔲𝔡 𝓗is maimed mortal form may have finally forsaken this world and passed into the æther eternal, but voice, lyric and soul had forged a timeless trinity long before. The ultimate synthesis of his artistic vision/s, 'Straight Songs of Sorrow' represents the final, glorious exorcism of a legitimate legend, breathing or bygone. Favorite track: Apples From a Tree.

andybeagle I'm (like many of you) utterly gutted. condolences to his wife and friends. he was going from strength to strength, artistically, & this is a testament to that.
RIP, MARK. ENJOY WHAT COMES NEXT, & THANKS FOR SOUNDTRACKING MY LIFE FOR 25+ YEARS. 🧡💫✨🖤🎶 Favorite track: Skeleton Key.

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1.	I Would't Want To Say 05:46	buy track
2.	Apples From a Tree 01:55	buy track
3.	This Game of Love 04:48	buy track
4.	Ketamine 02:40	buy track
5.	Bleed All Over 03:35	buy track
6.	Churchbells, Ghost 04:53	buy track
7.	Internal Hourglass Discussion 03:49	buy track
8.	Stockholm City Blues 03:38	buy track
9.	Skeleton Key 07:05	buy track
10.	Daylight In The Nocturnal House 03:05	buy track
11.	Ballad of a Dying Rover 04:36	buy track
12.	Hanging on (For DRC) 02:10	buy track
13.	Burying Ground 04:46	buy track
14.	At Zero Below 04:40	buy track
15.	Eden Lost And Found 02:46	buy track

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When considering any great work of art, be it a painting, a novel, or a piece of music, it’s natural to wonder what might have inspired it: ‘the story behind the song’. Mark Lanegan’s new album, Straight Songs Of Sorrow, flips that equation. Here are 15 songs inspired by a story: his life story, as documented by his own hand in his new memoir, Sing Backwards And Weep.

Straight Songs Of Sorrow combines musical trace elements from early Mark Lanegan albums with the synthesized constructs of later work. The meditative acoustic guitar fingerpicking – provided by Lamb Of God’s Mark Morton – on Apples From A Tree and Hanging On (For DRC) echo 1994’s Whiskey For The Holy Ghost. Yet one of that record’s touchstones was Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, echoed in the new album’s opener I Wouldn’t Want To Say, where Lanegan extemporises *à la Ballerina over musique concrète wave patterns generated by his latest favourite compositional tool, a miniature computer-synth called the Organelle.

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