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Jul 23, 2018 Duke Garwood By Christopher Roberts

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Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood are releasing a new collaborative album, With Animals, on August 24 via Heavenly. Previously they shared the album’s opening track, “Save Me,” as well as its title track, “With Animals” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Now they have shared another song from the album, “Scarlett,” via a somewhat abstract black & white video directed by Sabrina Westmoreland. Watch it below.

Lanegan had this to say about the song in a press release: “Duke gave me a piece of music he called ‘Scarlett’ and I was inspired to put down the words really quickly, to the haunting beauty and feeling of the music.”

Garwood adds: “‘Scarlett’ is a fever dream soundscape born from a banquet of Scarlett Johansson movies.”

With Animals was recorded in Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Joshua Tree. It is the follow-up to the duo’s first collaborative album, 2013’s Black Pudding, although the two have collaborated in other ways as well, such as Garwood playing in Lanegan’s band and on his albums.

Garwood had this to say about the album in a press release: “Over the years, we’ve recorded together and apart. This time, I started this record alone, with many animals as company. It flowed, I set to work and out it came. Our music is instinct, there is not much talking about it, just creating. I think that if you are at peace with your work, and feeling it right, it flows, and can feel ‘easy.’ Music isn’t meant to be hard. Though sometimes it can burn you to ashes. Making music for a singer, so they can inhabit it with a song means hitting the right soul buttons. There is no hit without a miss. It is a healing record, for us the makers, and for the listeners. It grows natural. We are gardeners of sonic feelings.”

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