Blown away. I remember reading that he got COVID so bad that it put him in a coma at one point. Wonder if the lasting effects contributed.
This takes an unexpected dark and dismal turn at the end of the sugar rush that is the rest of the record. Dan had a specific vision for the vocals that our immediate group of collaborators couldn’t really execute on. We were talking about it with Ben Chisholm and Dan said, ‘We need Mark Lanegan to sing on it.’ I think he meant we needed someone that sounds like that. We didn’t expect to actually get Mark Lanegan. But within 24 hours, we had vocals from Mark Lanegan. As inconvenient as a collaborative effort like The Armed can be, it can also lead to something like this. I mean, I’m singing with Mark Lanegan on this. It’s so fucking cool.
Oh wow, that's terrible! Fuck man, he was a member of the band Freelance Whales if anyone listened to them, highly recommended really sad stuff