Description
When considering any great work of art, be it a painting, a novel, or a piece of music, its natural to wonder what might have inspired it: the story behind the song. Mark Lanegans 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 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 Gods Mark Morton on Apples From A Tree and Hanging On (For DRC) echo 1994s Whiskey For The Holy Ghost. Yet one of that records touchstones was Van Morrisons Astral Weeks, echoed in the new albums opener I Wouldnt 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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