Gargoyle

Gargoyle

• Gargoyles
• ABIS_MUSIC
• COOP Heavenly

Gargoyle is the new album from Mark Lanegan Band. A 10-track LP that features guest appearances from long-time collaborators Josh Homme (Queens of The Stone Age), Greg Dulli and Duke Garwood. <br><br>The first song Mark wrote for this record was Blue Blue Sea, a rippling mood piece that he thought might be a more fruitful direction for his new record. It s almost always how my records start, he explains. I let the first couple of songs tell me what the next couple should sound like, and it s really the same process when I m writing words. Whatever my first couple of lines are tell me what the next couple should be. I've always built things like that, sort of like making a sculpture I guess. The album title comes from a lyric in Blue Blue Sea - Gargoyle perched on gothic spire - and was chosen for its hint of self-deprecation. <br>While sharing roots with its two predecessors, on Gargoyle there s a significant up-shift in the swaggering powerlode of such keynote songs as Nocturne and Beehive, while the lyrics tonal palette is more varied. <br><br>Upon hearing the album for the first time Greg Dulli said Wow, I had to listen to it twice - it sounds like he's having a good time...