Rating: 73.33
Genre: Alternative Singer/Songwriter
Mark Lannegan came of age with Screaming Trees, out of Seattle, in the mid '80s and began his solo career in 1990. This is his seventh solo album and the first in 8 years (and the first for me.) Do not be fooled by the album cover or the album title. Lannegan has a raspy, baritone voice and his influences are all over the place. It's all got a dark moodiness to it, but their isn't much blues and even less related to embroidered flowers.
Harborview Hospital has an Edge-style guitar; my favorite, Riot In My House, has an awesome rock guitar from Josh Homme of Queens of The Stone Age; Grey Goes Black is just hot pop rock.
The first half of the album is outstanding and I thought for a while this could be my favorite in 2012, but the second half drags a bit.
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