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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt (2008)

Label: V2 Records | Language: English

Teaming up for the second time, Isobel Campbell (formerly of Belle & Sebastian) and Mark Lanegan (formerly of The Screaming Trees and myriad legendary grunge off-shoots) forge an unlikely but perfectly balanced mutual reliance. Campbell's soft, almost jazzy voice is the worthy foil of Lanegan's booming baritone, the two of them equal parts soothing and menace. A similarly bluesy feel hangs over from 2006's 'Ballad Of The Broken Seas' record, but here it is more prominently felt in Lanegan's contribution to lead vocals. Again, Campbell takes care of production, writing and arrangement duties.

Gainsbourg and Birkin, Hazlewood and (Nancy) Sinatra, Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: say it how you will, but there was something a little too calculating about Campbell & Lanegan’s first collaboration, Ballad of the Broken Seas. It had its moments, but the songs relied too heavily on the contrast between the roughness of Lanegan and the sweetness of Campbell to be truly convincing.

Sunday At Devil Dirt inhabits the same scorched earth, but is a more confident record. Ironically, this confidence manifests itself in an understated vocal performance from Campbell, leaving the spotlight on Lanegan’s dusty baritone. He still sounds at times like a man who is lower than the heel of Lee Marvin’s left boot, but there’s a lovely tenderness to his singing, and he’s never sounded sweeter than he does on the brooding Trouble. (It’s traditional to compare Lanegan to Johnny Cash, but in this world-weary mode he’s closer to Kris Kristofferson, inhaling the fresh air on Sunday Morning Coming Down.)

If Lanegan dominates vocally, the bouquets should go to Campbell. She wrote the songs (with the exception of Jim McCulloch’s Salvation), and produced the record, and must take the credit for the album’s mood, which mixes the mystical eroticism of The Raven with the Dr John-inflected rhythms of Back Burner; a sultry tune which – in ways that would take years of therapy to explain - made me think of a dancing Elvis Presley.

On some level, this is pastiche. The songs sound as if they come from an older, wearier America, but there’s a playfulness about Campbell’s writing – a lullaby here, a lament there – that excuses the contrived chemistry.

There’s a whistling solo, and car horns, and bells. And on Shotgun Blues, there’s Campbell, her little girl voice wrapped in a barbed wire blues, singing a song about an itch that needs scratching. It’s innocent and filthy. But mostly filthy.

Tracklist

01. Seafaring Song

02. The Raven

03. Salvation

04. Who Built The Road

05. Come On Over (Turn Me On)

06. Back Burner

07. The Flame That Burns

08. Shotgun Blues

09. Keep Me In Mind, Sweetheart

10. Something To Believe

11. Trouble

12. Sally, Don't You Cry

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