Ballad of the Broken Seas | ||||
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Released | 7 March 2006 | |||
Recorded | 2005 | |||
Genre | Folk rock | |||
Length | 42:45 | |||
Label | V2 | |||
Producer | Isobel Campbell, Dave Paterson | |||
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Drowned in Sound | [2] |
Pitchfork Media | (7.2/10) [3] |
Tiny Mix Tapes | [4] |
Ballad of the Broken Seas is an album by Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, their first collaboration. It made the shortlist for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize and was one of NME's top one hundred albums of the decade. [5]
The Mercury nomination provoked some criticism, as Lanegan was American and the award is for British and Irish artists only. However, Campbell wrote most of the tracks and produced the album. Campbell had written the music and some of the lyrics before sending it to Lanegan.
All tracks are written by Isobel Campbell except where noted
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Deus Ibi Est" | 2:51 |
2. | "Black Mountain" (music based in part on the traditional melody "Scarborough Fair") | 3:10 |
3. | "The False Husband" | 3:53 |
4. | "Ballad of the Broken Seas" | 2:42 |
5. | "Revolver" (Mark Lanegan) | 2:40 |
6. | "Ramblin' Man" (Hank Williams) | 3:29 |
7. | "(Do You Wanna) Come Walk with Me?" | 3:27 |
8. | "Saturday's Gone" | 4:37 |
9. | "It's Hard to Kill a Bad Thing" (Jim McCulloch) | 2:53 |
10. | "Honey Child What Can I Do?" (Campbell, Simon Shaw) | 3:44 |
11. | "Dusty Wreath" | 3:44 |
12. | "The Circus Is Leaving Town" | 5:35 |
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