With their sublime second album - “Sunday at Devil Dirt” - on V2/Cooperative Music Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan have again staked a claim for one of the albums of the year, having been the subject of stunning reviews over the past week, including a 5 Star CD of the Week in the Sunday Times, CD of the Week in the Observer, and rave 4 star reviews in MOJO, Uncut, the Times, Independent, Mail, Mirror and Express… with many more reviews still to run… press highlights below…
“the chemistry between the two is riveting… Campbell’s songs are simple, direct, gorgeous… If, after the brilliant Ballad, you had said that this pair would reunite and make an even better album, I wouldn’t have believed you – but I think they just have”
Sunday Times – 5 Stars ***** (CD of the Week)
“It deserves the attention received by their debut, and then some”
The Observer - CD of the Week
“A modern-day Nancy and Lee… It is no exaggeration to say that, at their best, the songs on Sunday at Devil Dirt sound like instant standards… So was if the mere novelty of their alliance that got them that first Mercury nomination? If this far superior album doesn’t repeat the accolade, we’ll know that is was”
The Times – 4 Stars **** (CD of the Week)
“Crackles with sexy chemistry… Lanegan turns in some career-best performances… Way rootsier than Nancy and Lee, these two really hit the spot”.
MOJO – 4 Stars ****
“A confident record… there’s a lovely tenderness to Lanegan’s singing and a playfulness about Campbell’s writing…”
Uncut – 4 Stars **** (lead review)
“this follow up collaboration capitalises on the emotional piquancy of the contrast between Lanegan's smoky barritone and Campbell's honeyed tones… highlights are many and varied…”
The Independent – 4 Stars ****
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“The beauty and beast formula that worked so well on this duo’s 2006 Mercury-nominated album is beautifully fine-tuned here by producer and writer Isobel… The songs skilfully reshape classic folk/blues… The Mercury judges are going to have to give em a second, serious listen.”
The Mirror – 4 Stars ****
“As odd couples go, Campbell and Lanegan take some beating. But the combination works a treat here… With strings, church bells and twangy guitars, the unlikely duo dovetail superbly… darkly seductive”
Daily Mail – 4 Stars ****
“a bewitchingly brilliant, troubled and occasionally lusty blend of acoustic folk, rootsy blues and string-doused ballads in the vein of Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Nick Cave.'
Sunday Express - 4 Stars ****
“Lanegan and Campbell come together beautifully on this album’s doleful folk ballads and soul-fuelled curios… Dark, passionate and infinitely imaginative”
Rock Sound – 8/10
“a beauty-and-the-beast, innocence versus experience arrangement… Lanegan oozing dark menace while Campbell floats
ghost-like above atmospheric orchestrations…”
Q Magazine – 3 Stars ***
Catch Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan on tour in June…
Tuesday 10 June – LONDON – Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Wednesday 11 June – BRIGHTON – St Georges Church
Thursday 12 June – MANCHESTER – Academy
Friday 13 June – GLASGOW - ABC
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