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Album DescriptionSaturnalia is the anticipated first album from The Gutter Twins, the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli. Saturnalia finds the axis Dulli nicknamed "the Satanic Everly Brothers" going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. Mystical, unpredictable, ult
Album Description
Saturnalia is the anticipated first album from The Gutter Twins, the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli. Saturnalia finds the axis Dulli nicknamed "the Satanic Everly Brothers" going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. Mystical, unpredictable, ultimately masterful, the album both embodies and defies any expectations suggested by the principals' individual notoriety. Pointedly not resting on the sonic laurels of their previous successes, Saturnalia instead proves rootsy but Baroque, handmade yet modernist, teeming with siren melodies that don't resolve. Produced by Dulli and Lanegan along with the band's unofficial third member Mathias Schneeberger.
This wily and depraved collaboration between Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers) and Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age) was aptly named for the Roman festival of misbehavior. Saturnalia allots equal time to both of the veteran alternative rockers as they traipse a wayward path. The sinister strings, Mellotron, and harmonium compliment Lanegan’s bourbon-drenched baritone as well as Dulli’s vocal abandon. While Dulli’s compositions, the funereal "God’s Children," torchy "The Body" and ghostly "Front St.", are terrific, Lanegan’s contributions may not have an equal impact--though his mere presence is imposing. Guttural ballads like "Bete Noir," "Seven Stories Underground" and the lingering "Who Will Lead Us" surge with his familiar, nostalgic imagery ("I think the chariot is coming… Lord, I’ll give this trumpet up"), and "Idle Hands" will have ‘Tree’s fans reminiscing. --Scott Holter
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