Mark Lanegan Bubblegum reissues previously unreleased music with Beck and Troy Van Leeuwen.

On Monday, a teaser for the posthumous Mark Lanegan music appeared on the late musician’s social accounts. Today we learn what this release includes. Bubblegum XX20th anniversary edition of Lanegan’s 2004 album bubble gum, will be released as a 2xLP vinyl reissue of the original album and a 4xLP/3xCD/digital release containing 40 remastered tracks. A dozen of these are previously unreleased, including “Union Tombstone” with Beck and six tracks recorded in various hotel rooms with Lanegan’s Stone Age bandmate Troy Van Leeuwen.

Van Leeuwen shared this statement:

So these hotel demo sessions were basically forgotten…when I heard the news of Mark’s passing, these memories started coming back to me. I searched through the archives of my drive and somehow magically was able to open these sessions. I thought to myself, “This never happens.” These ideas couldn’t be fresher than the tap. The original rough mix is ​​a real time capsule that stands for the 20 years that have passed. This is Mark’s true gift to those of us who love him and is an unblemished expression of his beauty. With each listen, I am humbled and honored to share his gift with you.

big Bubblegum XX The box contains a 64-page hardcover book with essays by Van Leeuwen, Josh Homme, Chris Goss, Alain Johannes, David Catching, Greg Dulley, Duff McKagan, and Brett Knetson, along with studio notes and previously unseen photographs by Steve Gulick. It also contains an extended edition of Lanegan’s 2003 EP Here Comes That Weird ChillBilled as Here Comes That Weird Chill (Methamphetamine Blues, Excess & Weirdness). In his 2017 memory I am the wolfThe following is written about Lanegan bubble gum And Here Comes That Weird Chill:

“Man, this is becoming quite a scene A beautiful mind . . . And not in a good way,” said mix producer Rick Will, and I knew what he meant. I lay awake for days and nights, delirious from sleep and illegal stimulants, and sat on the studio floor with sheets of paper covered in handwritten lyrics, notes, and ideas scattered around me within a 10-foot radius. . . While I’ve been off record in the past, this was a new high. . . Or less, depending on one’s perspective. For several months I had been using the off-time from my gig as a backing singer with Queens of the Stone Age to try and finish a record, but as usual, my own insanity wouldn’t allow it. When it was all said and done, I recorded enough for two records, the first with the title Greg Dalli said shivering as he walked to my car in the sudden cold wind after a Twilight Singers recording session, and Hence the title. bubble gum Coming from a lyric from the song “Bombay”. Favorite songs include “Skeletal History,” where I tried to channel the free-form vocals of the SST band Saccharine Trust to cover my own Damaged Species, “When Your Number Ain’t Up,” and “Strange Religion.” ” can chart the sharp evolution of A love song I wrote in a hotel room in Tokyo. While many of the songs came from a place of frustration and ennui at the end of a stormy relationship, “Bombed” in particular came about when I put a microphone in front of me, after I wrote and recorded it in a matter of minutes. Hearing Wendy Rae Fowler, my soon-to-be ex-wife, and her sing together for the first time. I liked the result because it reminded me of Royal Trucks, a band I loved. When I insisted on using the first and only take of the song, it made him a little unhappy, but to be fair, it was one of the many things I did that had an effect.

Bubblegum XX 8/23 Beggar is out by feast. Pre-order it here.