Ballad of the Broken Seas | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 7 March 2006 | |||
Recorded | 2005 | |||
Genre | Folk rock | |||
Length | 42:45 | |||
Label | V2 | |||
Producer | Isobel Campbell, Dave Paterson | |||
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Drowned in Sound | [2] |
Pitchfork Media | (7.2/10)[3] |
Tiny Mix Tapes | [4] |
Ballad of the Broken Seas is an album by Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, their first collaboration. It made the shortlist for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize and was one of NME's top one hundred albums of the decade.[5]
The Mercury nomination provoked some criticism, as Lanegan was American and the award is for British and Irish artists only. However, Campbell wrote most of the tracks and produced the album. Campbell had written the music and some of the lyrics before sending it to Lanegan.