Isobel Campbell

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan — Sunday At The Devil Dirt

Hearing these Screaming Trees and Belle And Sebastian castaways collaborating was a strange marriage on Ballad Of The Broken Seas, and it's still a little odd here. I've always felt that Campbell's voice wasn't strong enough to carry a solo album, but here, purposefully relegating herself to background duties, she's found her niche. Campbell wrote...
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Sunday At Devil Dirt

Isobel Campbell — Milkwhite Sheets

After cutting the country record, Ballad Of The Broken Seas, with Mark Lanegan, ex-Belle And Sebastian cellist Isobel Campbell has gone entirely solo once again. For her second album of the year, the whispery songstress has rearranged a series of traditional British folk songs. The result falls somewhere between Nico's sad, medieval maudlin and...
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Isobel Campbell

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan — Ballad Of The Broken Seas

In the tradition of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra (or Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock), Belle And Sebastian chanteuse Isobel Campbell and ex-grunger Mark Lanegan combine their respectively sweet and salty voices with surprising success. While the uniqueness of each collaborator's voice and the album's southwestern atmospherics drift into kitsch...
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Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Campbell And Lanegan Return Together

Former Belle And Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell and ex-Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan will release their second collaborative album, Sunday At Devil Dirt, on Nov. 18. The Fontana International release, which is the follow-up to their 2006 Ballad Of The Broken Seas debut, has been out in the U.K. since May. The North American release...
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Campbell & Lanegan

New Releases: Getting Down To The Weirdoes And Best-Ofs

A funny thing happened to release schedules this year. The Strokes broke the rules by releasing their record on January 3, and everybody followed their decision to do so by fast-tracking their early 2006 albums into January and February. As a result, the typically busy spring release schedule mostly dried up by late March, which shifted fall's...
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New Releases: Neko Case Leads The Flood

Last week there was nothing to talk about. This week, there's just too much. We begin with a former indie queen who's about to take the crown back from reigning monarch Feist. Neko Case's Fox Confessor Brings The Flood is her first studio album in four years and, without spoiling too much, it's worth the tremendous wait. Not that Case has been...
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Trans-Atlantic Relationship Works With Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan

When news broke that Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan were putting out an album together, fans of both musicians (or at least those who had actually heard of the other artist) were puzzled. Campbell, best known as the pouty chanteuse who once put the "Belle" in Scottish pop darlings Belle And Sebastian, didn't seem like the kind of girl...
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