Personnel: Mark Lanegan, Liz Burns (vocals); Mike Stinette (saxophone); Terry Yohn (harmonica); J Mascis (piano); Phil Sparks (acoustic bass); Tad Doyle (drums); Mike Johnson, Paul Solger Dana, Keni Richards, Dave Catching, Fred Drake. Engineers: John Burton, John Agnello, Terry Date, Jack Endino. The third solo album from Screaming Trees singer Lanegan can be seen as the final component of a thematic trilogy. Lanegan's quiet, reflective solo work has always been at odds with the music of the Trees (and dare we say, more interesting). SCRAPS AT MIDNIGHT is no exception; continuing the thread begun on 1990's THE WINDING SHEET, Lanegan offers up another batch of ominous, acoustic-based, soul-searching tunes. While SCRAPS is anything but retro, it has a timeless quality, bearing faint echoes of equally disconsolate troubadours like Astral Weeks-era Van Morrison, Tim Hardin and Fred Neil. Moody, stirring, often unsettling, SCRAPS is a logical artistic progression from Lanegan's previous work.
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