Album Review: Phantom Radio by Mark Lanegan Band
Lanegan’s is one of the great American rock voices — deep and grainy, full of heart and depth, honey and edge. Grumblers would prefer their Dark Mark with sparse guitar arrangements but they’ve recently been given a sublime double retrospective — Has God Seen My Shadow? — covering more than 20 years of such work so it’s good to see him and the band trying some new sounds here.
The sounds are not new to the world — imagine he’s found an old 505 in the attic and tipped around with it for the new songs. That attic is probably the same place he keeps his tattered copy of the Old Testament that resonates in his walk-on-the-wild-side lyrics.
