Phantom Radio (Vinyl LP) Soundtracks & Library

Phantom Radio (Vinyl LP) Soundtracks & LibraryPhantom Radio is the much anticipated new album from The Mark Lanegan Band. Lanegan's chief compositional tool on Phantom Radio was his phone specifically an app called Funk Box. "I didn't bother to hook up my 909 and 808 this time," he says, "because the app had 'em. I'd write drum parts with it then add music with the synthesizer or the guitar." The album grew organically from these synthetic roots, taking in Mark's ongoing love of Krautrock and

that entreaty leads to discovering the latter's true stakes

complete with songs that are fictionalized stories about misfits

he did so with a breezy

The beats recede for a breather four minutes in as if to survey the surroundings

Trips to West Africa have secured original master tapes and the process of transferring is ongoing

but they immediately catapulted to the forefront of the Madchester scene

The strong call-and-response dialogues

all distinct and brilliant

Street punk pioneers Charged G

and the keyboard wizardry of Don Blackman and Weldon Irvine

'Jeun Ko Ku'

#31 Pop Singles)