Mark Lanegan Bubblegum

"[G]ruff stuff....[With] a genuine, slow-burning Leadbelly brutalism." - Grade: B+
"[I]t seems as if it were rising from a deeply dug well, especially Lanegan's glowering pirate-in-recovery voice....He hasn't sounded this focused in years." - Grade: A
4 stars out of 5 - "[He's] more alive and more vital than ever."
4 stars out of 5 - "[T]his is an entirely consistent record from a man who's yet to make a bad one, and whose rasping gravitas has made him one of the great voices of our time."
Ranked #6 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[A] bleakly corrosive, yet strangely uplifting album that spits, snarls and nurses..."
"He expands his palette on BUBBLEGUM...A full-blown creative revival..."
Ranked #8 in Magnet's "The 20 Best Albums Of 2004" - "Lanegan does a few gypsy box-steps and a couple Seattle stomps, always dancing with his favorite partners: love and drugs..."
"His finest work yet swoons between nail-biting highs and strung-out lows..."
4 stars out of 5 - "BUBBLEGUM is, in many respects, classic Americana, at its simplest level, wide-screen loneliness, the sound of rattling boxcars and rattling lung, of dusty roads and endless journeys."