{"id":5853,"date":"2017-05-18T13:57:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T17:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2017-05-26T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T17:44:00","slug":"mark-lanegan-band-gargoyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/mark-lanegan-band-gargoyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Lanegan Band <br>Gargoyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lanegan-Gargoyle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5854\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lanegan-Gargoyle.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Lanegan Band, Gargoyle\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lanegan-Gargoyle.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lanegan-Gargoyle-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>No disrespect, but who would have thought that Screaming Trees alumnus Mark Lanegan would turn out to be the versatile journeyman he\u2019s become. He\u2019s worked with acts as different as Queens of the Stone Age, Isobel Campbell, Soulsavers, Moby, and a host of others while at the same managing a solo career. As such, you might think you know what to expect, but you truly never know what you\u2019re going to get from Lanegan. Such is the stage set for his tenth solo album, <i>Gargoyle<\/i> (Heavenly Recordings), this one with his eponymously named band.<\/p>\n<p>Still, despite all signs to contrary there is an expectation that a Lanegan record is going to be dark, with the only real questions being how dark and how loud and slow. <i>Gargoyle<\/i> may come as a surprise then. It continues in the same vein as his last album, 2014\u2019s <i>Phantom Radio<\/i>, with electronic elements finding their way into the mix. Producer and longtime collaborator, multi-instrumentalist Alain Johannes also produced that album, but <i>Gargoyle<\/i> doesn\u2019t play like a retread. Hearing a drum and bass loop start off \u201cDrunk In Destruction\u201d is legitimately surprising, and there\u2019s plenty of mood and genre-jumping going around. \u201cBeehive\u201d sounds like a pyschedelic Echo and the Bunnymen romp, while \u201cEmperor\u201d is similar but with the goth elements stripped away.<\/p>\n<p>Lanegan has one of the most distinctive, seemingly non-versatile voices in music, yet you can put it in any context and it just works. And as he\u2019s gotten older, his baritone has just gotten more worn, like an old baseball glove. Johannes, as well as Josh Hommes, Greg Dull, Duke Garwood and co-writer Rob Marshall, move the pieces around Lanegan and lean into the fact that there is an no particular \u201cLanegan sound\u201d other than his voice.<\/p>\n<p>Any weakness of the album is not from the production or performances, but the mere fact that some songs aren\u2019t as strong as others. For example, \u201cSister\u201d never really goes anywhere, while several others feel under-baked. The bobbles don\u2019t derail the overall quality of the album, but at a modest nine songs, there\u2019s nowhere for them to hide. On the whole, though, <i>Gargoyle<\/i> is a solid record and an interesting chapter in the ongoing story of Lanegan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No disrespect, but who would have thought that Screaming Trees alumnus Mark Lanegan would turn out to be the versatile journeyman he\u2019s become<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,215,758],"class_list":["post-5853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-heavenly-recordings","tag-mark-lanegan-band"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mark Lanegan Band Gargoyle - The Agit Reader<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/mark-lanegan-band-gargoyle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mark Lanegan Band Gargoyle - The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"No disrespect, but who would have thought that Screaming Trees alumnus Mark Lanegan would turn out to be the versatile journeyman he\u2019s become\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/mark-lanegan-band-gargoyle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheAgitReader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-18T17:57:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-05-26T17:44:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lanegan-Gargoyle.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dorian S. 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