Morphine Announce New Album Cocoon Featuring Recordings Mark Sandman Made Before His 1999 Death
It's quite something that we're getting fresh material from Mark Sandman all these years later, isn't it? Morphine were genuinely one of a kind, that hypnotic two-string bass sound and Sandman's distinctive baritone creating something that felt completely outside the normal rules of how rock music worked. For Cledvibes Radio listeners who might not have caught them back in the day, this could be a brilliant entry point into understanding why they were so influential and why people still talk about them with such reverence. There's something rather moving about hearing his voice again through these previously unreleased recordings.
From Stereogum: As the years pass, it gets harder and harder to believe that Mark Sandman was a real guy — that he made the music that he did, that he looked like that, that he was actually named Mark Sandman, and that he died in the way that he did. He was like a character that Jim Jarmusch might dream up. Sandman sang in a deep and lascivious baritone and played two-string slide bass as the frontman of Morphine…
