Amoeba Music > Music > Music We Like

Amoeba Music's
discerning &
knowledgeable musical
experts (our staff) have
put their collective
heads & ears together to
bring you an unbiased
& unobjective collection
of our favorite new
music & movies!

Hollywood Staff
San Francisco Staff
Berkeley Staff

*Requires Adobe Reader
click here to get it >


	Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan Ballad of the Broken Seas (V2)

Dark/light, beauty/beast, pleasure/pain, delicate, desperate, haunted and seaworthy… it’s all here and I’m really enjoying it. What I didn’t know was that Isobell Campbell wrote and produced almost all of the material. Lyrically, it felt like Lanegan to me, but he’s channeling Campbell who wanted to write some of the songs from a male perspective. Given her whispery lightness of voice, she made a wise and creative decision. Where Lanegan anchors, Campbell floats freely in and around him. They have remarkable chemistry, considering most of the material was recorded separately. Highlights include the dreamily familiar “Black Mountain”, a whip-cracking cover of Hank Williams’ Ramblin’ Man, the playful “(Do You Wanna) Come Walk With Me?” Lanegan’s perfectly penned “Revolver” and the gorgeous “False Husband”.

Joyann Troutman

Next Album >

< Previous