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Rating: A man and a woman lying on the soft dark tentacular, until sleep comes. They sleep to dream, to talk in their sleep, to wake up and make love once more. The dreams, the images, their voices joining those of the wind and rain, the night.
"Ballad Of The Broken Seas" is the album that brings to life one of the most interesting collaborations in the modern singer-songwriter music scene, that between Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell of Belle & Sebastian. Two voices, opposites in sign and tone, among the most sensual and warm you will ever listen to. A light breath and a shiver hers, dark and dense his. Together, the pleasant surprise of a work that is the perfect combination between Johnny Cash (American Recordings), Lee Hazlewood – Lanegan's private ghost – and the early, soft Nancy Sinatra.
A collection of wonderfully simple songs that reconcile with one's inner world. Passionate and affectionate, sometimes dark but never unfathomable. As "Deus Ibi Est" tells, the gray inside Lanegan. Then "The False Husband," a splendid twang in the style of Badalamenti before opening the shutters to the pale sun of Isobel's voice. Light songs, shaded in sounds, rarefied in atmospheres suspended between sleep and wakefulness. Up to the biting revisitation of traditional folk-blues "Ramblin’ Man" by Hank Williams, the pinnacle of the game of seduction that the two conduct throughout the album.
Timeless music that simply invites you to dance, to move gently close to another's body, swaying like sand dunes in the night wind. And these two voices. That speak of a beautiful and unknown love, which "is identity between different people, is love between people who do not understand each other."
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When his voice takes us into the depths, like an angel Isobel Campbell comes to bring us back up to the light, to breathe.
Sometimes strings join in to give a touch of skillful epicness to the journey, as if the faces of these songs had the features of Sergio Leone’s heroes.
