THE GUTTER TWINS - SATURNALIA (180g 2LP)

The Gutter Twins Saturnalia on 180-gram Double LP

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Collaboration Between Alt-Rock Legends Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan on Spin's Best of 2008 List

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Saturnalia is the astonishing debut from The Gutter Twins, the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli (The Afghan Whigs). Saturnalia finds the duo nicknamed “the Satanic Everly Brothers” going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. Mystical, unpredictable, ultimately masterful, the album embodies and defies any expectations suggested by the principals’ individual notoriety.

Produced by Dulli and Lanegan along with the band’s unofficial third member Mathias Schneeberger, Saturnalia’s eerie modal swirls trap the listener in each song’s atmosphere, which simultaneously evoke everything from traditional Middle Eastern music to Appalachian folk to Delta grit. Eerie melodies abound. Spartan electronica indelibly collides with spooky space blues on “Who Will Lead Us?”; “Idle Hands” fuses trance-inducing exoticism with electrifying boogie guitar riffs. The cumulative effect proves both internal and epic.

"A triumph of great art over anticipation and expectation, Saturnalia, named
after an ancient Roman festival at which the social order of slaves and
masters was reversed, finds Dulli and Lanegan in peak form, the singers
reaching for transcendental deliverance while contemplating heaven, hell,
temptation, and salvation amidst ominous sonic surroundings." -Bob Gendron, The Absolute Sound, April 2008

"The Twins push each other to go darker and deeper, to bare more of their souls, so Saturnalia sounds heavier, bleaker, simultaneously more desperate and more content than anything either musician has done in years. As they both sing on "All Misery / Flowers," "I did all I did just to get through to heaven." Dulli and Lanegan haven't reached the Pearly Gates yet, but that's our good fortune." -Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork, March 2008

"No big surprise that the long-awaited collaboration between 90s-vintage gloom kings Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli wasn’t exactly the feel-good hit of the year. But the former’s narcoleptic, baritone moan and the latter’s mischievous, soulful wail give these mid-tempo dirges, awash in revelations and Revelation, a touch of grace that recalls their classic work without repeating it." -Spin, December 2008

The Gutter Twins Saturnalia Track Listing:

1. The Stations
2. God's Children
3. All Misery/Flowers
4. The Body
5. Idle Hands
6. Circle the Fringes
7. Who Will Lead Us?
8. Seven Stories Underground
9. I Was in Love with You
10. Bête Noire
11. Each to Each
12. Front Street