Duke Garwood supporting Mark Lanegan in London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
The long-running musical partnership between Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood is set to continue on August 24th with the release of their second album together.
“Over the years, we’ve recorded together and apart,” Garwood says. “This time, I started this record alone, with many animals as company,” says Garwood. “It flowed, I set to work and out it came. Our music is instinct, there is not much talking about it, just creating. I think that if you are at peace with your work, and feeling it right, it flows, and can feel ‘easy’.”
“Music isn’t meant to be hard. Though sometimes it can burn you to ashes. Making music for a singer, so they can inhabit it with a song means hitting the right soul buttons. There is no hit without a miss. It is a healing record, for us the makers, and for the listeners. It grows natural. We are gardeners of sonic feelings.”
The pair will take With Animals out on the road later this year, starting a European tour with UK dates between October 1st-8th.
Tour dates:
October
1 – Gateshead, Sage
2 – Bath, Komedia
3 – Brighton, The Old Market
5 – London, Union Chapel
6 – Leeds, City Varieties
7 – Glasgow, St Lukes
8 – Manchester, RCNM
10 – Utrecht, Tivoli Hertz
11 – Antwerp, De Roma
12 – Cologne, Gloria
13 – Geneva, Alhambra
14 – Parma, Auditorium Paganini