With animals

"With the release of With Animals, his second collaboration with English multi-instrumentalist (and touring band member) Duke Garwood, Lanegan doesn't change his musical M.O. so much as Garwood alters the tone and mood in which his bluesy vocals are delivered. Where the duo's first album, 2013's Black Pudding, was flanked by Garwood's sparse guitar arrangements, their latest features dusty tape loops, brittle drum machines and a lo-fi eight-track recording sound that gives Lanegan's dark-night-of-the-soul delivery a whole new aesthetic".

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"There's dark music, and then there's With Animals, the new album from longtime collaborators Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood that's pitch black, almost till the very end.The strengths of the two men pair up perfectly: Lanegan's gravelly baritone sounds like smoke slinking down a shadowy alley, and Garwood's tracks are the shadowy alley, no matter what he's using to construct them".

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