ARTIST: Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan
TITLE: Ballad Of Broken Seas
LABEL: V2
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 179 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 42min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-02-00
RIP DATE: 2005-11-09
Track List
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01. Deus Ibi Est 2:51
02. Black Mountain 3:10
03. The False Husband 3:53
04. Ballad Of Broken Seas 2:42
05. Revolver 2:40
06. Ramblin' Man 3:29
07. (Do You Wanna) Come Walk With 3:27
Me?
08. Saturday's Gone 4:37
09. It's Hard To Kill A Bad Thing 2:53
10. Honey Child What Can I Do? 3:44
11. Dusty Wreath 3:44
12. The Circus Is Leaving Town 5:35
Release Notes:
Scottish chanteuse Isobel Campbell has inked a long term worldwide recording
deal with V2 Records. Isobel, formally of Belle & Sebastian, has spent the
initial part of this year completing work on æBallad of the Broken SeasÆ, the
collaborative album recorded with former Screaming Trees & Queens of the Stone
Age singer, Mark Lanegan. Although much of the album was recorded with Campbell
in her native Glasgow, and Lanegan in Los Angeles, the two actually came
together in the studio in L.A. in May to cut a number of new tracks for the
release, including a new Lanegan penned song, æRevolverÆ and a version of the
traditional blues tune, æSt James InfirmaryÆ. Isobel initially met Mark Lanegan
in Glasgow while he was on tour with Queens Of The Stoneage. Professing to be a
big fan of her music, Lanegan made an offhand comment about how he would love
for them to make a record together. Isobel took the idea and ran with it,
writing a number of songs with Lanegan in mind, communicating with him via the
internet, and posting over tracks for him to add his vocals to.
"His voice is rough and a lot of people say mine is angelic," Campbell says of
Lanegan. "It's the two sides of the coin, really. That's how we both always
looked at it. It's very unlikely. It's a very feminine/masculine thing as well."
As for the sound of "Broken Seas," which features a "quite nasty" cover of Hank
Williams' "Ramblin' Man" that Campbell says would fit well in a Quentin
Tarantino movie, the artist offers, "I was going for an old-school kind of
approach. I'd been listening a lot to the 'American Recordings' by Johnny Cash
and I'm a huge, huge fan of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra. It's kind of
sun-bleached and psychedelic, with a little bit of folk or country."
The first release under the V2 deal will be a download-only and limited edition
7" single, due out in the UK at the beginning of December, comprising the pairÆs
cover of Hank WilliamsÆ æRamblinÆ ManÆ, with a new Campbell song, æFurther into
the NightÆ as the 7" b-side. æBallad of the Broken SeasÆ is scheduled to follow
early in February 2006. Campbell plans to follow that up later in 2006 with a
second album; the more folk oriented æMilk White SheetsÆ