Tracks Of The Day: Soulsavers
Not one but TWO free tracks from Mark Lanegan side project. Click here for previous Tracks Of The Day.
Former Screaming Tree and Queen of the Stone Age, Mark Lanegan is a) a giant, b) keeper of one of modern rock’s greatest voices and c) a very busy man. The last few years have seen Lanegan team up with former Afghan Whig Greg Dulli for The Gutter Twins, former Belle & Sebastian singer Isabel Campbell for two country tinged albums, and Soulsavers: now on their 3rd album and this time around featuring Lanegan, Mike Patton, Jason Pierce, Gibby Haynes, Will Oldham and Richard Hawley on vocals.
This August sees the release of Soulsavers’ third album. The link below take you to the single and b-side, neither of which are included in the finished long player, an album that refuses to confine it’s ambitions to one genre.
In 2007, when Soulsavers released their second opus “It’s Not How Far You Fall, It’s the Way You Land”, the collective’s leader RICH MACHIN explained what lay behind it. “I didn’t want to be in an electronic band. Or a rock’n'roll band. I wanted the freedom to explore.” Today, he reaffirms that position. “I love all kinds of music, which allows me to open all these doors. There’s nothing better than bringing in great people who inspire, to keep you on top of your game, and to keep things fresh. That’s the nature of what we’ve set up here.”
Soulsavers second album brilliantly melded soul, gospel, rock and country into a cinematic whole and was released to huge acclaim… “An album of such devotional beauty that even on first listen it creates an abundantly transcendent experience” went one review. “One listen to their spine-tingling second effort will have you ready to up sticks and follow them to the ends of the earth,” read another…
Now you must be prepared to follow SOULSAVERS even further, for “Broken” is even better, a future classic of immense ambition that delivers thirteen tracks of wide-ranging majesty. MARK LANEGAN fully consolidates his position within the Soulsavers project, delivering some of his finest vocal performances to date over the course of ten tracks, though numerous other leftfield luminaries also come along for the ride… Spritualized’s JASON PIERCE duets with Lanegan on “Pharaoh’s Chariot”, MIKE PATTON appears on “Unbalanced Pieces”, RICHARD HAWLEY adds backing vocals to “Shadows Fall”, while GIBBY HAYNES of BUTTHOLE SURFERS infamy appears alongside Lanegan on “Death Bells”…
But before all of this Soulsavers will be treating us to “Sunrise”, a lone-plains-drifter lament written by Mark Lanegan and sung by WILL OLDHAM which will be released exclusively as a 7” single. Returning the compliment, Lanegan takes on Oldham’s “You Will Miss Me When I Burn” on the B-side of the single.
