Track Listing

1. The Seventh Proof
2. Death Bells
3. Unbalanced Pieces
4. You Will Miss me when I Burn
5. Some Misunderstanding
6. All the Way Down
7. Shadows Fall
8. Can't catch the Train
9. Pharoah's Chariot
10. Praying Ground
11. Rolling Sky
12. Wise blood
13. By My Side

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #937 in Music
• Released on: 2009-08-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .13 pounds

CD Description
Soulsavers return with the follow-up to 2007's 'It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land'. Continuing their work with the iconic, low and husky vocal tones of Mark Lanegan, the production duo have also drafted in the likes of Mike Patton, Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers), Jason Pierce (Spacemen 3) and Richard Hawley to create 'Broken'. The album is brimming with spell-binding lyrics and exceptional musicianship, wrapped up in a sumptuous blend of gospel and electronicmusic.

Customer Reviews

Songs For Sinners and Saviours
More splendidly gloomy stuff from Messrs Machin and Glover
and their estimable collaborators.

Dark, funereal and strangely uplifting on occasion, 'Broken' is
music for a night in with a good bottle of red wine for company
( a Romanee-Conti or Richebourg would do nicely ).
Ideally the wind will be lashing the rain
mercilessly against your windowpanes.

Opening track 'The Seventh Proof' is a beautifully
constructed instrumental overture.
The tolling bell is an inspired little detail.
The reflective prelude is swept away by the violently raucous
mayhem of 'Death Bells', a composition redolent of Nick Cave
in one of his big, bad evangelical preacher moments.
You can almost smell the fire and brimstone !

Mr Lanegan, though clearly leader of the pack, is not alone
in providing some marvellous moments within the 13 tracks
comprising this largely gloomy (in a good way) collection.
Red Ghost's duet with him on 'Rolling Sky' is a richly layered tour de force.

Richard Hawley's contribution to 'Shadows Fall' also deserves a special mention.

There is an almost cinematic quality to many of the songs.
Songs for sinners and saviours and imaginary westerns.

The fiercely emotional intensity of 'You Will Miss Me When I Burn' is almost
unbearable. "When you have no-one no-one can hurt you" - Ouch indeed !

'Praying Ground' has garnered some criticism for Ms Ghost's performance. I loved it.

So too her rendition of final track 'By My Side',
a very moving conclusion to a very fine album.


Almost certainly a strong contender for inclusion in my top ten albums of 2009.

Essential.

Utterly fantastic and better than the last... for the most part
This album is as close as us Lanegan fans have gotten to a new solo album in quite a while, with Bubblegum, his last, having just celebrated its 5th year of existence. The sheer quantity of tracks here featuring the familiar 'Warmth At The Back Of Your Throat After A Shot Of Whisky' vocals is sure to keep us lot happy for a while.
Compared to his for the most part subpar collaborations with Isobel Campbell, and his comfort zone in the Gutter Twins (not that Saturnalia wasn't a great album), Lanegan really stretches himself on this one. You'll have your heart broken again and again, in the sweetest sense possible. Tales of regret and inner turmoil have always been the Lanegan standard, but here the vocal meoldies soar just that bit more due to the production work - Mark's voice sounds richer because of the sheer amount of musical embellishment behind his voice. Be it wall-of-sound guitars, amazing back-up harmonies, maturely put-together string sections or a wealth of backup singers (including Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers!!) who are in their own right well-known enough to carry a song by themselves but who are humble enough to just add to them.
However, the extra star missing from this review is due to a genuinely uninspired Lanegan cover from newcomer Red Ghost. Like many people I had talked to prior to the release of this album I got myself into a bit of a state in anticipation of this new Lanegan interpretation, 'Praying Grounds'. Being that the cover of 'Kingdoms of Rain' from their last album, It's Not How far You Fall, It's The Way You Land, was completely astounding and added to the songs without taking anything away from it (not an easy thing to do to a classic such as KoR), I was looking forawrd to this a lot. Then they got Red Ghost to do lead on it, Lanegan doesn't even do backup, and what do you get: a pale imitation rather than a logical step forward. None of the passion of the original is present here. However, that's not to say I dislike her voice - she just missed the Mark (Oh see what I did there!) with her rendition of this one particular number. I really can't understand why someone who so clearly doesn't 'get' where the original was coming from was allowed as a guest to take the lead on this one, but hey. Rolling Sky, another song featuring Red Ghost, is fantastic so don't be totally put off.
Now release a 'proper' solo album, Lanegan! Get it done!

superb
great album. another fantastic collaboration from mark lanegan. bought this just before seeing soul savers live in glasgow with mr lanegan - neither album nor gig disappointed.