If you're like us, you lost your heart immediately to Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan's first duo album, 2006's Ballad of the Broken Seas. The former Belle & Sebastian pixie and the erstwhile Screaming Trees leader made for a classic beauty-and-the-beast combo that brought back fond memories of Nick Cave's long-ago duet with Kylie Minogue. Those on Campbell's side of the Atlantic have been enjoying the pair's second release, Sunday at Devil Dirt, since May, while Yanks have been deprived up to now, but relief is on the way. Fontana is set to make the album available to clamoring Americans from sea to shining sea on November 16, and as a reward/consolation prize for that six-month stretch in sonic purgatory, we'll be getting five bonus tracks not available on the original UK version. How you like us now, Limeys?
Track listing:
Seafaring Song
The Raven
Salvation
Who Built the Road
Come on Over (Turn Me On)
Backburner
The Flame That Burns
Shot Gun Blues
Keep Me in Mind Sweetheart
Something To Believe
Trouble
Sally Don't You Cry
Fight Fire With Fire*
Asleep on a Sixpence*
Violin Tango*
Rambling Rose, Clinging Vine*
Hang On*
*bonus track
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I'm always a sucker for this kind of combo (Nick Cave and co. on Murder Ballads comes to mind), and I, too, loved Ballad of the Broken Seas. Awesome that this is coming out.