Saturnalia

Gutter Twins

Genre: music4me > Alternative > Indie

Format: CD Album

Released: Tue 4 Mar 2008

Catalogue Number: SUB70761.2

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AUD$25.06

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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.
* 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, Saturnalia’s eerie modal swirls trap the listener in each song’s atmosphere; simultaneously evoking everything from Indian sitars to Appalachian folk and Delta grit, the drones inadvertently create narcotic hooks.
* Spartan electronica indelibly collides with spooky space blues on “Who Will Lead Us?”; “Idle Hands” fuses Middle Eastern exoticism with shocking guitar riffs that shoot AC/DC boogie into another fucking galaxy. The cumulative effect proves internal yet epic: the netherworld symphonics of Mogwai, Sigur Ros and Bohren und der Club of Gore are touchstones, alongside the sprawling emotions of Pink Floyd, the melodically catchy paranoia of the Beach Boys, the primal confessionals of John Lennon.

Details:

Distributors: PIAS UK, Sony DADC
Producers: Mathias Schneeberger, The Gutter Tw
Sound Engineers: Dave Rosser, Mark Chalecki, Sir Dam
Discs: 1
Release Year: 2008
Weight (g): 76

Track Listing:

1.	The Stations
2.	God's Children
3.	All Misery/Flowers
4.	The Body
5.	Idle Hands
6.	Circle the Fringes
7.	Who Will Lead Us
8.	Seven Stories Underground
9.	I Was in Love with You
10.	Bete Noir
11.	Each to Each
12.	Front Street