Straight Songs Of Sorrow

2020, May 8

Apple Spotify Bandcamp Singer-Songwriter Folktronica 86 Highly Rated Heavenly Recordings Indieheads 13 The Line of Best Fit 7/10 NME 4/5 All Music 4/5 Gigwise 7/10 Under The Radar 8.0/10 Clash 8/10 Mojo 4/5 Loud and Quiet 7/10 Pop Matters 6/10 Northern Transmissions 6.7/10 Spectrum Culture 75% music OMH 4/5 Sputnikmusic 3.5/5 The Telegraph 4/5 The Irish Times 4/5 The Arts Desk 4/5 Uncut 8/10

The Line of Best Fit 7/10 Mark Lanegan's prolific career hits a stumbling block on the expansive Straight Songs Of Sorrow

NME 4/5 The former Screaming Trees frontman and Queens of the Stone Age collaborator lays himself bare on an album as viscerally honest as his new memoir

Under The Radar 8.0/10 Those looking to hear the signature rough and rugged sounds of Mark Lanegan, the Northwest’s broken angel of grunge music, when pressing play on his new LP, Straight Songs of Sorrow, will likely be met with some surprise at what unspools before their ea

Clash 8/10 “Neither Kurt (Cobain) nor Layne (Staley) believed I would ever get clean due to my maniacal hunger for drugs… They both imagined they would

Loud and Quiet 7/10 Veteran songwriter Mark Lanegan dives deep into his past on Straight Songs Of Sorrow, and overall it's a triumphant reckoning

Pop Matters 6/10 Mark Lanegan's death waits there, unrealized, in song after song.

The Telegraph 4/5 US R’n’B singer-songwriter Kehlani is turning lockdown positively steamy.

The Irish Times 4/5 The morbid lyrics are inspired by scarifying details of Lanegan’s early life