CD Mark Lanegan – Somebody’s Knocking

Now in it’s sixth year, Ten Bands One Cause returns in 2019 with a new set of ten artists issuing their albums on pink colored vinyl LP to help raise cancer awareness, in support of Gilda’s Club NYC – named after comedian Gilda Radner, who passed away from cancer at the age of 43 in 1989. This year’s limited pink vinyl are from John Prine, Third Eye Blind, Spiritualized, Sunn O))), Amanda Palmer, Courtney Marie Andrews, Mark Lanegan, Saves The Day, Colter Wall and Lacuna Coil. From the opening bars of “Disbelief Suspension” onwards, it’s clear that Somebody’s Knocking is an album made by someone deeply obsessed with how music – with all it’s primal, spiritual healing power – truly penetrates the soul. As a result, there’s joy in the music, as if created from a perfect set of inspirations smashed and grabbed from God’s own record shop. Some of the influences are oblique, others direct and fully respectful. From the Raw Power-esque garage metal grind of that opener to “Letter Never Sent’s” rocket-powered take on Love-era kaleidoscope-psych, through the pensive subterranean murk of “Dark Disco Jag” and on to “Playing Nero’s” sun-bleached riff on Joy Division’s “Atmosphere,” there’s the glee of infatuation running deep in the tracks.