Mark Lanegan
Field Songs

Having reached his fifth solo CD, Mark Lanegan continues with this work in his personal musical evolution. From the psychedelic grunge of the eighties, celebrated by the success achieved with the Screaming Trees and still decidedly present in his solo beginnings, Lanegan has managed over the years to renew and mature towards less essential, yet decidedly more descriptive sounds.

Even in this case, Lanegan allows himself various collaborations, both in the compositional phase (Mike Johnson, Jeffrey Lee Pierce) and in execution (Duff McKagan, Ben Shepard), a characteristic that gives his songs always different nuances while maintaining his unmistakable style unchanged. Songs like "One Way Street" (a snapshot of a tormented and decadent existence) and "Resurrection Song" (a liturgy imbued with crepuscular shades) manage to convey the entirety of his murky message without filter. A message that hits straight to the heart, where it echoes for quite some time. Without even realizing it, you find yourself suspended in a melancholic spirituality, a weariness of living cradled by unhappy loves and an essential and faded nature, always balancing between the curse (It's a bad, bad feeling that you get when you get so lonely. "She Done Too Much") and the exaltation (I stagger in a daze to find what you meant where it's good to be alone. "No Easy Action") of a resigned and inescapable solitude. Lanegan, with his Field Songs, gives us strong and sincere emotions, marked by one of the warmest and most vibrant voices in the entire music scene.