SATURNALIA - GUTTER TWINS
The Gutter Twins’ Sub Pop debut, “Saturnalia,” is teeming with the kind of raw and gritty music one might expect to hear kicked around in, well, the gutter. And considering that the project is a collaboration between indie vets Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli, that’s certainly not a bad thing. There’s something ominous and satanic that possesses the guitar riffs scrawling all over “Idle Hands,” and that spirit is channeled elsewhere on “All Misery/Flowers” and the haunting “Front Street.” Hints of blues rock infuse “The Stations” and electronic flourishes highlight “Each to Each,” as Lanegan’s brooding baritone and Dulli’s mellow tenor muse on the absurdities of love. “I tell you my story, so that you might save me,” Lanegan intones on “All Misery,” and while he may never find the salvation he’s seeking, he can rest assured there’s someone down here in the dinginess listening.
