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Andrew Weatherall of Screamadelica fame has remixed Mark Lanegan Band's new single 'Beehive', taken from the recently released album Gargoyle. Listen to it on Gigwise below.
The track is a highlight of the Gargoyle and like five of the other cuts taken from it, the instrumental was written by former Exit Calm member Rob Marshall.
Inspired by both Marshall's ethereal industrial post punk guitars and Lanegan's creative vocal melody and darkly seductive lead vocal, Weatherall has injected some of his own taste for transcendent, repetitive beats into proceedings; the result? Absolute magic. Hopefully this can become a staple in Weatherall's live shows over the next few months.
Asked about the track Weatherall says in a press release: “I'll be honest, when executing a remix usually the first thing to go is the vocal track. There are however exceptions. Mr Lanegan singing ‘lightning coming out of the speakers’ (or let's face it Mr Lanegan singing full stop) is one of those exceptions.”
Elsewhere, Lanegan recently spoke to Gigwise about Gargoyle and praised his label boss Jeff Barrett as "one of the all time greats" of the music industry.
He also told us he his creativity "is usually rooted in some reality or it's fictional pieces of ideas, pieces of dreams," and he's "not really sure where they come from or what they mean."
What's clear, though, is his writing is up there with the most inspiring poets of all time like William Blake, reading the lyrics to 'Beehive' below show just how vivid his imagination is.
Scenes of dying light
Everywhere through a firecracker summer
Suddenly alone in a beehive
With a spider crawling along my spine
Blue water down from the mountains
Washed across the killing floor
Blood rushing up from a fountain
Can't undo a thing no more
I drag my chair to the window
And listen to the swarm
Beehive
Beehive
Honey just gets me stoned when I'm living
Bell rung
And stung
Honey just gets me stoned
Just gets me stoned
Scenes of dying love
In my head buzzed as a bees nest
Hanging down from above
Everywhere I look, it's a bummer
Gasoline in cool, cool water
I'm lying on a cooling board
Lightning coming out of the speakers
I want to hear that sound some more
Press my body against the window
In an electric storm
