Mark Lanegan Band ?– Somebody's Knocking Coloured Vinyl 2LP

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Mark Lanegan Band - "Somebody's Knocking" Vinyl 2LP

Please note this vinyl is new & unplayed but the sleeve shows some very slight marking/damage (please see photos).

Heavenly Recordings are thrilled to announce Somebodys Knocking, the new 14track album from Mark Lanegan Band, released 18th October and available to preorder here. To celebrate the release Lanegan has shared a hilarious video for first single Stitch It Up in which he also stars. Of the video Lanegan says: I had a blast making this video. We had some friends over for dinner and Joe Cardamone met Donal Logue there and they hit it off. When I later talked to Joe about directing a vid he immediately said Jimmy The Cab Driver I called Donal and he laughed for like ten minutes and was totally into it. My head was pounding from laughing so hard the day of the shoot. It was extremely tough to keep a straight face when Donal was in character, he turned into an updated version of Jimmy so fast. Both Joe and Donal are brilliant. Theres a reason its the first video of mine Ive been in for the last 15 years.

From the opening bars of Disbelief Suspension onwards, its clear that Somebodys Knocking is an album made by someone deeply obsessed with how music with all its primal, spiritual healing power truly penetrates the soul. As a result, theres joy in the music, as if created from a perfect set of inspirations smashed and grabbed from Gods own record shop.Some of the influences are oblique, others direct and fully respectful. From the Raw Power-esque garage metal grind of that opener to Letter Never Sents rocket-powered take on Love-era kaleidoscope-psych, through the pensive subterranean murk of Dark Disco Jag and on to Playing Neros sun-bleached riff on Joy Divisions Atmosphere, theres the glee of infatuation running deep in the tracks. And, in some ways, that display of infatuation serves to change the very perception of Lanegan the artist this album being less the tale of a brooding, crepuscular rocknroll veteran and more that of someone consumed by a lifelong love of words and sound fused together.

With that perception shift in mind, one of the most remarkable moments on Somebodys Knocking is Penthouse High a track that positively blooms, sounding like a love letter to imperial phase New Order. For Lanegan, it signals a return to one of his formative musical loves from a time even before he joined Screaming Trees.

Ive always been into electronic music since I was a kid, he says. I think the reason those elements have become more obvious in my music is that my tastes have changed as Ive grown older. The bulk of what I listen to now is electronic. Alain Johannes and I had actually written Penthouse High for Gargoyle (the 2017 album the Guardian stated saw Lanegan in the form of his career) but then it didnt really fit on that record. I have been a huge fan of New Order and Depeche Mode forever and have wanted to do a song along those lines for a long time a blatantly catchy, old-school dance-type song.

Although Somebodys Knocking came together in an 11 day session in L.A. (Lanegans hometown of the last 22 years), many of the deepest musical influences on the record are European be they the aforementioned electronic artists or newer, murkier forms provided by writing partners Martin Jenkins (who records as Pye Corner Audio) or Rob Marshall a collaborator on Gargoyle and on his own, forthcoming debut album as Humanist. In each case, Lanegan approached working with each of the writers from the perspective of a fan.

Lyrically, Somebodys Knocking sets the listener off down multiple rabbit holes, painting deeply psychedelic pictures where someones drip, drip, dripping acid out of the dropper (Disbelief Suspension) or where the hounds are behind me/footsteps following/you know you cant find me/Im miles from the crime scene on the monumentally addictive Stitch It Up.

While on the whole, interpretations are left for the listener to decide on, there are aspects of the real world that cant help but seep subconsciously into Lanegans songs: It seems to me that the entire world is in a weird, precarious place right now. I try to not be someone in a constant state of worry and alarm but watching the massive divide that is taking place and the political situations, especially in the US and UK makes me think, what the fuck are these idiots thinking? The hatred, racism and all this other fear-driven shit, these adults that continually drive the machine that perpetuates this ignorance to their own ends should all be in prison cells instead of the non-violent drug offenders in them now. I cant specifically say how any of this effects my writing but I know that most of the things that occupy my thoughts have a way of coming back out in a song.

At the end of the day though, Somebodys Knocking doesnt need to be either commentary or allegory. Like Lanegans best work, it tells its own stories and weaves its own wonders, conjuring up feverish hallucinogenic visions to sit atop roughly hewn rock and glassy, brilliant bright electronics. And then it leaves them to penetrate their own ways right down to our deepest, darkest roots.

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