Isobel Campbell, Mark Lanegan
Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Isobel Campbell, Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Review by Mike Diver

On paper it’s a potentially disastrous pairing: on one side of this five-inch plastic disc we have Campbell, twee scene pin-up and possessor of the most delicate voice this side of one of Heaven’s own chanteuses; Lanegan, meanwhile, is the Devil’s own baritone, voice hoarsened by a life spent chasing rats and dragons down gutters and alleyways, choking on the dust of a dozen near misses...»