Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral – review

(4AD)The first Mark Lanegan Band album since 2004 (he's been busy with Soulsavers, the Gutter Twins and Isobel Campbell) contains no great shocks: for the most part, this is bluesy, lugubrious, modernish rock, elevated by Lanegan's remarkable gravel-pit of a voice. Opener The Gravedigger's Song is propelled by the thick throb of its bassline and shuffly electronic drums, but that voice is inevitably the focus. Mixed up high, it is as striking – overbearing, even – as ever, and is, it must be...

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