Calling it Now: Best album of 2008

For some reason, Mark Lanegan gets left out of music thought, yet he keeps creating some amazing music. On the first B-Cuts of the year, we did our rounds and predicted the best album of 2008. I forget what I said (I think it was Opeth?), but it wasn't the Gutter Twins' Saturnalia. Why not? Because I forgot about it. This is something I am slightly ashamed of, because I recently visited The Gutter Twins' myspace and listened to the two songs they've released... only to be BLOWN AWAY.

The Gutter Twins' consist of Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, and Soulsavers (my 2nd favorite album of 07, beat out only because In Rainbows was amazing) and Greg Dulli of Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers. Both musicians are on the same label, Sub Pop, and they collaborated on a Twilight Singers EP. They gelled so well they decided to make an album together.

The two songs on their myspace "Idle Hands" and "The Stations" have a sound different from anything either musician has done. Their combined musical forces build up this dark, genre-bending entity ready to kick some ass.

Do yourself a favor and check out this music. Maybe even do a little more digging. Sub Pop has a really interesting article describing their sound and how everything came to be.

"We're just the devil's plaything"




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