Mark Lanegan Band return with A Thousand Miles of Midnight, an album of remixes of tracks from both ‘Phantom Radio’ and ‘No Bells On Sunday’, the EP that accompanied it. The album is made up of a brilliant array of remixes by artists as diverse as UNKLE, Moby, Greg Dulli and Soulsavers.
For his most recent, typically acclaimed album Phantom Radio, Lanegan deliberately embraced the most synthetic of tropes – the über-modernity of neo-Krautrock and a phone app entitled FunkBox, which formed the basis of his songs.
This, coupled with the ghost-country atmospheres of his songwriting, made for a collection that was particularly suitable for reconstruction / deconstruction by left-field artists of all hues. So that’s exactly what we have here, with…
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…an assembly of musicians admired by Lanegan hand-picked to make over the material.
Mark Stewart of The Pop Group brings out the searing black in Death Trip To Tulsa, Lanegan’s noirish venture into Glen Campbell terrain; Greg Dulli of Afghan Whigs lays stress on the predatory sleaze of I Am The Wolf; while Moby adds anthemic grace to Torn Red Heart. Waltzing In Blue, meanwhile, crawls slowly out of the crater of dub into which Earth plunges it on his mix.
1. Death Trip To Tulsa — Mark Stewart’s Exopolitix Demix
2. I Am The Wolf — Greg Dulli remix
3. The Killing Season — UNKLE remix
4. Torn Red Heart — Moby remix
5. No Bells On Sunday — Moon Gangs remix
6. Floor Of the Ocean — Pye Corner Audio remix
7. Sad Lover — Mikey Young remix
8. Waltzing in Blue — Earth dub mix
9. Harvest Home — Magnus remix
10. The Wild People — Alistair Galbraith remix
11. Dry Iced — Tomas Barfod remix
12. Jonas Pap — Soulsavers Aural Disorientation remix
13. Seventh Day — Tom Furse extrapolation
14. Judgement Time — Alain Johannes remix