Remembering Mark Lanegan With 8 Essential Tracks |

 

 "Throughout his life, Lanegan had seen and experienced so much fucked-up shit, he needed two memoirs to cover everything. But for all the tales of substance abuse that permeate his backstory, Lanegan’s focus on music never wavered. He made a lot of it, with a lot of different people, and often in surprising contexts. While his guttural voice, menacing stage presence, and piercing death-stare earned him an unshakable reputation as a post-grunge grim reaper—kind of like Nick Cave with knuckle tats and a beaten-up ball cap—Lanegan’s sprawling discography presents an artist constantly striving for the beauty that life so often denied him. He was always seeking new ways to unlock the sanctity of a song—be it through folk, blues, metal, hardcore, funk, trip-hop, or electronic music. Trying to condense a career as vast and varied as Lanegan’s into a brief list may be a fool’s errand, but here are eight songs that served as crucial pit stops on his never-ending road to redemption."

Remembering Mark Lanegan With 8 Essential Tracks | Pitchfork