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- Summary: The Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli and Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan team up on their debut album as The Gutter Twins.
- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 28
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Mixed: 3 out of 28
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Negative: 0 out of 28
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Alternative PressThe lofty expectations are met in full with Saturnalia. [Apr 2008, p.160]
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FilterDulli and Lanegan, two of today's greatest underappreciated frontmen, are hypnotic; narcotic. [Winter 2008, p.96]
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MojoIt's a gloom that suits them both. [Apr 2008, p.112]
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It’s in those moments [of appealing moment of vulnerability] as well as in the swarming chorus of 'God’s Children' that the duo hit their true heights, and those same qualities are the ones most likely to mark this album as an enduring piece of work from two icons of a class that has long since graduated.
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Musically, Saturnalia, named after the Roman festival where slaves and masters switch roles, is a concentrated dose of their usual badassery, never straying too far from the territory Dulli explored on the last three Singers albums, and even includes many of the same collaborators.
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These guys sound like they're genuinely torn between looking up at the stars and trying to find an exit to the sewer. Neat trick, that.
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They were probably aiming for hypnotic or dreamy, but except for the cinematic bookends 'The Stations' and 'Front Street,' the slow dances mostly crash-land in Snoresville
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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RobG.Mar 11, 2008f**king great. Mark & Greg thank you.
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BobS.Mar 9, 2008Good.
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Raindog'sRantsMar 21, 2008
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NJstixxMar 22, 2008
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BulletMagazineMar 29, 2008Intense, dark, brooding - but a sense for the melodic which makes this an essential listen.
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