The Afghan Whigs – How Do You Burn? (2022) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

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The Afghan Whigs release their first studio album in five years, How Do You Burn?. How Do You Burn?, the ninth studio album from The Afghan Whigs, finds the band in peak form, making the most vaulting and thrilling music of their lives. The album is virile, ready-for-action, and finds frontman Greg Dulli as swaggering, enigmatic and darkly charismatic as ever, and singing up a storm. The album reaches corners of sound that, twenty-six years after the band’s inception, find them at an apex. Referencing Warren Zevon, Prince, and Zeppelin all while plugging in to the soul and R&B influences that have always set them apart, The Afghan Whigs are at a precipice of greatness. Says Dulli, “I’m beginning to see there are a million places we can go. I feel virile, ready for action, and I want to keep stalking greatness.”After an amicable breakup in 2001, The Afghan Whigs began touring and making records again in the second decade of the 21st century. With the departure of original guitarist Rick McCollum in 2014, frontman Greg Dulli and the reconstituted Whigs failed to impress with that year’s Do to the Beast and 2017’s In Spades. But the extra time the pandemic offered seems to have forced Dulli and his bandmates to change up their process, slowly building How Do You Burn? through separately recorded files. Guests abound, none bigger than the late Mark Lanegan who was in the duo Gutter Twins with Dulli, and here sings background vocals on “Jyja” and “Take Me There.” (According to Dulli, Lanegan also chose this album’s title.) After the storming rock guitar opener, “I’ll Make You See God,” unexpected string arrangements color “The Getaway” before vocalist Susan Marshall (who previously guested on 1965) joins for “Catch A Colt,” which the band’s official biography compares to Some Girls-era Rolling Stones or Tusk vintage Fleetwood Mac but is actually a synth-y ’80s flavored dance track. “Please, Baby, Please” is one of Dulli’s “are you the one?” soul ballads in which he switches to a Prince-like falsetto at points. Its plea of “Please, baby, please/ I gotta know what I’ve been waiting for/ I gotta know who I’ve been looking for/ I gotta know if that’s you knockin'” is convincing and seemingly heartfelt. Though marred by a sample of sirens at the end, the tuneful “A Line of Shots,” on which Dulli plays and sings everything, grows larger thanks to a grandiose vocal performance. And distinctive singer Marcy Mays (Scrawl), who appeared on the 1993’s Gentlemen, duets with Dulli on “Domino and Jimmy,” with its catchy repeated chorus. While this is not the Afghan Whigs of old, it is the best they’ve sounded since their rebirth. – Robert Baird

Tracklist:

1-01. The Afghan Whigs – I’ll Make You See God (04:52)
1-02. The Afghan Whigs – The Getaway (03:05)
1-03. The Afghan Whigs – Catch A Colt (04:23)
1-04. The Afghan Whigs – Jyja (04:29)
1-05. The Afghan Whigs – Please, Baby, Please (03:49)
1-06. The Afghan Whigs – A Line Of Shots (03:27)
1-07. The Afghan Whigs – Domino and Jimmy (03:52)
1-08. The Afghan Whigs – Take Me There (04:07)
1-09. The Afghan Whigs – Concealer (02:42)
1-10. The Afghan Whigs – In Flames (04:44)

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