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The Twilight Singers – Powder Burns

12 track album on CD and vinyl.

Powder Burns is the fourth album by Greg Dulli’s The Twilight Singers. It was partly recorded with extra power generators in a deserted New Orleans studio just after the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina. 

The group was initially formed as a side project of The Afghan Whigs leader Greg Dulli in 1997. After the Afghan Whigs disbanded, Dulli used The Twilight Singers as his own artistic vehicle, and has now released five studio albums backed by worldwide tours.

“Similar in hue to 2003’s Blackberry Belle, Dulli’s fourth outing with the Twilight Singers, Powder Burns, is anything but a re-tread. While Dulli’s working from his usual palette of muddy grooves, guitar-scree and leering swagger, the new album sounds more urgent and lucid in intention than its predecessors…

Lyrically, the album is informed by two life-altering events in Dulli’s life; his decision to clean-up, and Hurricane Katrina’s devastating effect on his adoptive hometown of New Orleans. At his insistence, Powder Burns was finished in the battered city – instruments had to be powered by generators and recording time was restricted due to the curfew imposed by the National Guard. Dulli has also spoken in interviews of his disgust at how quickly so many people were to abandon The Big Easy in its hour of need.”

Tracklist:
1. Toward The Waves
2. I’m Ready
3. There’s Been An Accident
4. Bonnie Brae
5. Forty Dollars
6. Candy Cane Crawl
7. Underneath The Waves
8. My Time (Has Come)
9. Dead To Rights
10. The Conversation
11. Powder Burns
12. I Wish I Was