Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Listening Post



There are no two more kindred spirits in rock and roll than Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan, which made the duo's first album recorded together seem like an inevitablility. Christening themselves, appropriately, the Gutter Twins, their full-length release from earlier this year was everything fans of these two legends hoped it would be: dark, powerful, menacing, and permeated with a sense of impending dread that can only come from the awareness that the mistakes of the past will almost certainly be repeated.

From Saturnalia, here's Idle Hands.

4 comments:

Rob said...

In the early '90s, when there was briefly a spotlight on bands from Ohio, I saw The Afghan Whigs on a bill with The Breeders and Guided by Voices. It was one of the loudest, most exciting sets I've ever seen a band do. I became a Dulli fan for life.

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Chez said...

I saw them at the Palace in L.A.

Unreal show.

Lisa without the L said...

If my memory serves me correctly, you even shed a tear or two.

Chez said...

I did indeed.

Lisa without the L -- that's good.