Rockers who live on a diet of whiskey and coke must be looked for in 2014 with a lantern. Mark Lanegan, author of an album entitled Whiskey For The Holy Ghost, has also left the bottle and the tobacco on the willows. Good for him but also for his fans? They mainly fell for his tipsy diction and sandpaper nicotine voice. Don't worry, a down-to-earth Lanegan is not suddenly a cheerful French. The
… ominous Judgment Time is full of Biblical quotes and ends with the dejected mantra 'Oh judgment time is near'. Phantom Radio does point in a different direction musically. The music from Lanegan's youth, the new wave and electropop of the early eighties, is emphatically circulating. With varying results, but in the strong Floor Of The Ocean it works out well. Lanegan's lived voice contrasts nicely with the clinical synths and the monotonous drum machine. (PdK)more
