Straight Songs Of Sorrow

AlbumMay 08 / 202015 songs, 1h 19s
Singer-Songwriter Folktronica
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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

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Mark Lanegan's prolific career hits a stumbling block on the expansive Straight Songs Of Sorrow

Mark Lanegan's music can be seen as one long chronicle of a man caught in a stubborn uphill climb up a mountain of his own making, in search of his soul and his peace of mind.

Mark Lanegan finished writing his “nerve-shredding” memoir Sing Backwards and Weep without any reward of catharsis – “all I got was a Pandora’s box of pain…I went way in.”

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

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

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

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Mark Lanegan's death waits there, unrealized, in song after song.

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Straight Songs of Sorrow by Mark Lanegan, album review by Gregory Adams. The legendary singer/songwriter's forthcoming release comes out on May 8th

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Album Reviews: Mark Lanegan - Straight Songs Of Sorrow

3.5 / 5

Mark Lanegan - Straight Songs of Sorrow review: Mark laying his demons to rest...

US R’n’B singer-songwriter Kehlani is turning lockdown positively steamy.

The morbid lyrics are inspired by scarifying details of Lanegan’s early life

The intense exploration of a tortured soul. Album review by Mark Kidel

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