11/30/2022 0 Comments Dark mark vs skeleton joe bandcampThe lead track, 'Skeleton Joe Manifesto' is a microcosm of the album itself. I felt the foundations start to crack." In 'Cold Summer', I picture Lanegan's shock & awe living in Europe, and more specifically at the mercy of the Atlantic weather in County Kerry, Ireland - "Watching these kids all day texting one another" / "Looks like one more week of rain" / "the rain comes pouring silver." One of the best tracks on the LP is 'Turning in Reverse.' It has a distinctly post-punk texture to it with some of the most visceral and disturbing lyrics on the release - "I woke to find a spider bite, so infected I was paralysed. The piano-based 'Crime' is heartfelt - "To me, my only living crime was loving her until I died." Whereas, the words within 'Traction' bring into sharp focus the many fellow artists & friends that both Lanegan and Cardamone have lost along the way during a harrowing personal journey for them - "I heard the news today, another friend went that way." 'Lost Animals' is pure poetry from Lanegan, with Cardamone's pulsing synths remaining low-key, letting the lyrics shine - "I slept straight through the spring while the flowers bloomed" / "People, don't you live a life like mine" / "I'm gonna keep standing on that stage in dirty combat boots, in a quietly dying rage." The searing and psychedelic 'Sanctified' continues the theme of being mere performers in a lonely world - "You're the actor on a stage." The first track, 'Living Dead' is sinister, manic and industrial with sombre & haunting Lanegan lyrics -"Do you remember your Daddy he lost his mind / He's just a shadow away." The current single, 'No Justice', sees them duet in the chorus - "Nobody sees, nobody cares." It has a sense of late-night excursions through a lawless & barren east Los Angeles cityscape - almost futuristic or apocalyptic in its delivery. XS Noize interviewed Mark earlier this year, and he said then about Cardamone, "I've always dug what he's been doing, musically." The majority of the album was finished in LA before Lanegan left the States for the west of Ireland in 2020. Lanegan and Cardamone's connection goes back almost a couple of decades when The Icarus Line toured with Mark's band in the early 2000s. Lanegan, once again pushing his own battered and relentless artistic boundaries to another level. When Mark Lanegan teamed up with Joe Cardamone of The Icarus Line to release the 12" single 'Skeleton Joe Manifesto' during the summer, it was difficult to foresee it being followed by a monster 16-track LP in the autumn.
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