Track Listing

1. Stations, The
2. God's Children
3. All Misery / Flowers
4. Body, The
5. Idle Hands
6. Circle The Fringes
7. Who Will Lead Us
8. Seven Stories Underground
9. I Was In Love With You
10. Bete Noir
11. Each To Each
12. Front Street

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1047 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-04
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Saturnalia is the anticipated first album from The Gutter Twins, the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli. Saturnalia finds the axis Dulli nicknamed "the Satanic Everly Brothers" going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. Mystical, unpredictable, ultimately masterful, the album both embodies and defies any expectations suggested by the principals' individual notoriety. Pointedly not resting on the sonic laurels of their previous successes, Saturnalia instead proves rootsy but Baroque, handmade yet modernist, teeming with siren melodies that don't resolve. Produced by Dulli and Lanegan along with the band's unofficial third member Mathias Schneeberger.

Customer Reviews

Two Voices That Deserve Accolades
Great work by two stalwarts in a deteriorating music scene. Perfect for late-night listening. As a long-time fan of Gred Dulli in all of his incarnations, I eagerly awaited this release, and was not disappointed. The two voices combine in always interesting ways, and the songwriting could only come from men who have experienced life the way that these two have. In a manufactured music business, we should all appreciate two master craftsmen at work and at the top of their game.

I recommend the Twilight Singers catalog, especially "Powder Burns" and "A Stitch in Time" EP for anyone who likes this album.

Not enough Lanegan for me.
Coming to this CD from the Lanegan side of the family, I was quite disappointed. I've been a huge fan of Lanegan since the early '90s, but Dulli's work has never interested me. I don't really like his voice or his style.

On every Mark Lanegan project in the past, there have always been several (usually most) of the songs on the CD that I can't get enough of, and can listen to almost infinitely. Nothing I heard here made me want to listen to Saturnalia more than once. The songs had none of the familiar gritty, world-weary, hardcase Lanegan bravado as heard on Bubblegum, Field Songs, or any of his earlier works. Saturnalia really bores me.

If you like Greg Dulli, or if you prefer Lanegan's work with Queens of the Stone Age, you may like this, but if you love Lanegan's solo albums and his albums with Screaming Trees, you'll probably be disappointed like I was.

I think Lanegan should part ways with Dulli and get back to the studio ASAP for a new solo album. Even his project with Isabel Campbell was miles above this in my opinion.

Absolutely essential
This is a fantastic album that immediately engages and yet also rewards repeated listens. I missed them when they rolled through town a month ago and I'm kicking myself for it.