Mark Lanegan Meets Bomb The Bass!

Heading down that old black river on Feb. 10...

By Blurt Staff

Mixmasters Bomb The Bass teamed up with Mark Lanegan for the song "Black River" on their recent album Future Chaos and the tune is due out now as a digital single on Feb. 10 from !K7. It's to include Gui Boratto, Maps, Patrice Bäumel, and you can stream it or nab a free download HERE.

There's also a striking video for the song - see it at the bottom of this page. Directed by Corin Hardy, is depicts a masked character dragging a suggestively sized package toward the titular river leading up to a reveal at the end.  A behind the scenes feature on the making of the video is available at the band's MySpace.

"Black River" is the third single from Future Chaos. Lanegan of course has a long pedigree.With his band the Screaming Trees, alongside Greg Dulli in the Gutter Twins, as a (brief) member of Queens of the Stone Age and on his own, Lanegan has long been one of contemporary rock music's most recognizable voices. His baritone holds the center of "Black River" as waves of Moog well around him and scratchy percussion echoes the gravel in his purr. For an act as essentially British as Bomb the Bass, the song carries an unmistakable whiff of classic Americana, from synths that slide like pedal steel to Lanegan's knack for channeling the Man in Black himself. But there's nothing kitsch or forced about it: this electro whirlwind cuts slowly and steadily across a landscape of its own making, carrying you firmly in its sandpaper grip.