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How Do You Burn, The Afghan Whigsrsquo first album in 5 years, on CD. Includes the instant grats ldquoThe Getawayrdquo and ldquoIrsquoll Make You See Godrdquo delivered to your email upon purchase completion.The Afghan Whigs announce their first studio album in five yearsnbspHow Do You Burn,nbspwhich is set for release on September 9th via Royal CreamBMG.nbspHow Do You Burn, their ninth album overall and following on from the brace of widely acclaimed records theyrsquove made previously since regrouping in 2012, lsquoDo to the Beastrsquonbsp2014 and lsquoIn Spadesrsquonbsp2017. lsquoHow Do You Burnrsquo picks up the baton laid down by each of those records and runs it to the horizon.Work on it was begun in September 2020 the COVID pandemic having forced Whigs frontmansongwriter Greg Dulli to abandon plans to tour his highly praised solo album, lsquoRandom Desirersquonbsp and continued over the next 14 months.nbspThe global pandemic dictated also that the band record largely apart from, and in different locations to, each other Dulli, his coproducer Christopher Thorn and drummer Patrick Keeler together in California bassist John Curley, guitarist Jon Skibic and strings man Rick Nelson laying down and engineering their own parts in Cincinnati, New Jersey and New Orleans, respectively.nbspnbspFor his supporting cast, Dulli called upon several serial collaborators including the latenbspMark Lanegan,nbspwho was a regular in DullirsquosnbspTwilight Singers, a partner innbspThe Gutter Twinsnbspand a close friend.nbsp Lanegan makes hisnbspAfghan Whigsnbspdebut singing backup vocals on two tracks.nbsp ldquoIt was Mark who named the album,rdquo Dulli remarked.Susan Marshall, who sang on the Whigs albumnbsp1965, returns to the fray for ldquoCatch A Colt,rdquo one of the albumrsquos standout tracks, looselimbed like lsquoSome Girlsrsquoera Rolling Stones and with the liquid polyrhythms of Fleetwood Macrsquos lsquoTuskrsquo.nbspThe multitalented Van Hunt, who toured with the Whigs in 2012 and guested on lsquoDo to the Beastrsquo, brings his stackedup, wallofsound vocals to both the plunging, voodooblues of ldquoJyjardquo and the audacious lsquoTake Me Therersquo, transforming the latter, says Dulli, ldquointo this feral gospel song. We sing really well together, but what Van does productionwisehellip itrsquos unrelenting.rdquoThen therersquos Marcy Mays, lead vocalist on ldquoMy Curserdquo, the torchsong highlight of 1993rsquos seminal lsquoGentlemenrsquo album, reprising her role here on the celestial ldquoDomino and Jimmyrdquo, playing Stevie Nicks to Dullirsquos Lindsey Buckingham. ldquoI wrote that song with Marcy in mind,rdquo says Dulli. ldquoNoone sounds like her shersquos got an incredibly unique, emotional and evocative voice.rdquoThe Afghan Whigs Dulli, Curley, Nelson, Keeler and with Christopher Thorn now joining the band on guitar will take lsquoHow Do You Burnrsquo out on the road.nbspBeyond that, says Dulli, their future is gloriously wide open. The Afghan Whigs CD is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £11.99