The Afghan Whigs Announce New Album, ‘How Do You Burn?’ With Appearances By Mark Lanegan, Marcy Mays

The Afghan Whigs will launch How Do You Burn?, their first album in 5 years, September 9. The ten-song assortment is like an prolonged household album, with a number of outdated mates of the Whigs and frontman Greg Dulli making appearances on the album.

Amongst them, probably the most bittersweet is the presence of late Screaming Timber frontman Mark Lanegan, who does background vocals on two as but unnamed tracks. Lanegan and Dulli are in fact longtime brothers in arms who had their very own band, The Gutter Twins. Dulli stated in a press launch that it was Lanegan who named the album.

The album additionally sees the return of vocalist Susan Marshall, who appeared on the band’s gorgeous 1965 file and toured with the group for that album. Marshall lends her vocals to the impassioned, heavy tempo of “Catch A Colt.” One other pal of the band returning to the celebration is Van Hunt. The vocalist/instrumentalist, who was a part of the Do To The Beast tour and album cycle in 2012, comes again to the fray for “Jyja” and “Take Me There.”

For longtime Whigs followers although, absolutely the spotlight would be the return of Marcy Mays. Mays is a storied a part of the Whigs’ greater than 30-year lore for her landmark vocals on “My Curse” off the Gents album. Through the years, the occasional look of Mays at Whigs’ L.A. exhibits has despatched the crowds into jubilant frenzies. The vocal flip she and Dulli share on the masterful “Domino And Jimmy” will once more set the Whigs world ablaze.

“I wrote that music with Marcy in thoughts,” says Dulli within the press launch. “No-one seems like her; she’s acquired an extremely distinctive, emotional and evocative voice.”

The album’s second single, and video, “The Getaway,” is on the market as we speak.

The ten songs on the album are

1. I’ll Make You See God

2. The Getaway

3. Catch A Colt

4. Jyja

5. Please, Child, Please

6. A Line Of Photographs

7. Domino and Jimmy

8. Take Me There

9. Concealer

10. In Flames

The Whigs will hit the street subsequent week, beginning Might 11 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, via June 1 in L.A., the place they are going to be a part of Jack White on the YouTube Theater. Then after a European summer season run they are going to be again within the States from September 9 in Minneapolis via October 12, once more in Los Angeles, this time for a headlining date.