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Saturnalia CD (2008)
Gutter Twins music CDs The Gutter Twins is a project fronted by Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan, the former leaders of the seminal indie rock acts Afghan Whigs and Screaming Trees, respectively. Like the music made by Dulli and Lanegan's two past bands, the sound on SATURNALIA, the Gutter Twins debut, is passionate, moody, guitar-driven, and intense.
Yet SATURNALIA is directly reminiscent of neither the Whigs' punchy alt rock nor the Trees' psychedelic grunge. Instead, the Gutter Twins lead listeners down a dark, swirling path of minor key atmospherics, haunting harmonies, and harrowing confessionals. An album better suited to headphones and late-night speculation than to big speakers and headbanging, SATURNALIA is a shadowy, melancholic treat from two of rock's cult heroes.
Saturnalia is the anticipated first album from The Gutter Twins, the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli. Saturnalia finds the axis Dulli nicknamed "the Satanic Everly Brothers" going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. Mystical, unpredictable, ultimately masterful, the album both embodies and defies any expectations suggested by the principals' individual notoriety. Pointedly not resting on the sonic laurels of their previous successes, Saturnalia instead proves rootsy but baroque, handmade yet modernist, teeming with siren melodies that don't resolve. Produced by Dulli and Lanegan along with the band's unofficial third member Mathias Schneeberger, "Saturnalia's eerie modal swirls trap the listener in each song's atmosphere; simultaneously evoking everything from Indian sitars to Appalachian folk and Delta grit, the drones inadvertently create narcotic hooks
Audio Mixers: Sir Damian Stainsley; Mathias Schneeberger.
Recording information: Arcadia; Joshua Tree; Los Angeles, CA; New Orleans, LA.
Photographer: Sam Holden.
The Gutter Twins: Greg Dulli (vocals, guitar, guitars, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, organ, Mellotron, keyboards, bass instrument, bass guitar, drums, congas, percussion); Mark Lanegan (vocals).
Personnel: Jeff D. Klein (guitar, organ, programming); Natasha Schneider (synthesizer, sequencer); Andy Preen (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Dave Rosser (vocals, guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin, organ, bass instrument); Scott Ford (vocals, bass instrument); Greg Wieczorek (vocals, drums, percussion); Joseph Arthur, Martina Topley-Bird, Jennifer Turner (vocals); Mathias Schneeberger (guitar, harmonium, organ, Mellotron, bass instrument, drums); Jeff Klein (guitar, organ, programming); Mario Lalli (guitar, bass instrument); David Catching, Troy Van Leeuwen (guitar); Rick G. Nelson (violin, viola, cello); Petra Haden (violin); Simone Vitucci (cello); Quintron (organ); Natasha Shneider (synthesizer, sequencer); Eddie Nappi (bass instrument, drums); Andy Preen (drums, percussion); Cully Symington, Norm Block, Brian Young (drums).
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