"Mark Lanegan has the voice of a man who's seen some shit - and it turns out that Mark Lanegan has indeed seen some shit. That much is evident in his new memoir, Sing Backwards And Weep, which is frank about his youthful search for "decadence, depravity, anything, everything" and refuses to flinch from the guilt he still carries around the death of his friend Kurt Cobainʺ.