Mark Lanegan‘s 2004 album “Bubblegum” is getting reissued for its 20th anniversary. Beggars Arkive and Mark Lanegan’s estate collaborated on “Bubblegum XX“, which will be out August 23rd as a remastered double-LP. It’ll also be available as a four-LP box set that includes two bonus LPs featuring rarities, outtakes and demos, including 12 previously unreleased tracks.
“Bubblegum” was remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road Studios, and this is its first release as a double LP (the original 2004 vinyl edition squeezed the 50-minute album onto a single disc). The box set’s bonus discs include a remastered edition of “Here Comes That Weird Chill (Methamphetamine Blues, Extras & Oddities)”, now with three extra songs
The last LP is “Demos & Unreleased Songs”, which includes four songs that were produced and mixed by Troy Van Leeuwen and recorded “in various hotel rooms,” with Mark singing and Troy playing all the instruments. There’s also “Union Tombstone” where Mark shares vocals with Beck.
“These hotel demo sessions were basically forgotten,” says Van Leeuwen. “When I heard the news of Mark’s passing, these memories started rushing back to me. I searched through my archive of drives and somehow magically was able to open up these sessions. I thought to myself, ‘That NEVER happens.’ These ideas couldn’t be more fresh out of the tap. The original rough mixes are a real time capsule that stands up to the 20 years that have passed. It’s a true gift from Mark to those of us who love him and his unvarnished expression of beauty. With every listen, I am humbled and honored to share his gift with you.”
The “Bubblegum XX” box set also contains a a 64-page hardcover book with essays by Troy Van Leewuen, Josh Homme, Chris Goss, Alain Johannes, David Catching, Greg Dulli, Duff McKagan, and Brett Netson, along with studio notes and previously unseen photographs by Steve Gullick. “When he told me: ‘I’m calling it Bubblegum’, I was like you’re a sick fuck, because I knew him so that’s funny to me, ‘cause Lanegan wanted to be a new piece of bubblegum on a sunny happy day,” Josh Homme writes in the liner notes. “But he was the gum underneath the desk. He was the bubblegum underneath the table. He was the dark Lord.”
Beggars Arkive in conjunction with the Estate of Mark Lanegan, are honoured to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Mark Lanegan’s acclaimed 2004 album “Bubblegum”. released 23rd August.
“Bubblegum XX” – a set of releases that include a remastered double LP edition of the original album and a 4XLP/3XCD release containing 40 remastered tracks, 12 of which are previously unreleased. The limited-edition “Bubblegum XX” 4XLP box contains a 64-page hardcover book with essays by Troy Van Leewuen, Josh Homme, Chris Goss, Alain Johannes, David Catching, Greg Dulli, Duff McKagan, and Brett Netson along with studio notes and previously unseen photographs by Steve Gullick.
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