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How Do You Burn, The Afghan Whigs’ first album in 5 years, pressed on 180 gram clear vinyl.Includes the instant grats ‘The Getaway’ and ‘I’ll Make You See God’ delivered to your email upon purchase completion.The Afghan Whigs announce their first studio album in five years How Do You Burn, which is set for release on September 9th via Royal CreamBMG. How Do You Burn, their ninth album overall and following on from the brace of widely acclaimed records they’ve made previously since regrouping in 2012, ‘Do to the Beast’ 2014 and ‘In Spades’ 2017. ‘How Do You Burn’ 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, ‘Random Desire’ and continued over the next 14 months. The 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. For his supporting cast, Dulli called upon several serial collaborators including the late Mark Lanegan, who was a regular in Dulli’s Twilight Singers, a partner in The Gutter Twins and a close friend. Lanegan makes his Afghan Whigs debut singing backup vocals on two tracks. ‘It was Mark who named the album,’ Dulli remarked.Susan Marshall, who sang on the Whigs album 1965, returns to the fray for ‘Catch A Colt,’ one of the album’s standout tracks, looselimbed like ‘Some Girls’era Rolling Stones and with the liquid polyrhythms of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Tusk’. The multitalented Van Hunt, who toured with the Whigs in 2012 and guested on ‘Do to the Beast’, brings his stackedup, wallofsound vocals to both the plunging, voodooblues of ‘Jyja’ and the audacious ‘Take Me There’, transforming the latter, says Dulli, ‘into this feral gospel song. We sing really well together, but what Van does productionwisehellip it’s unrelenting.’ Then there’s Marcy Mays, lead vocalist on ‘My Curse’ , the torchsong highlight of 1993’s seminal ‘Gentlemen’ album, reprising her role here on the celestial ‘Domino and Jimmy’ , playing Stevie Nicks to Dulli’s Lindsey Buckingham. ‘I wrote that song with Marcy in mind,’ says Dulli. ‘Noone sounds like her she’s got an incredibly unique, emotional and evocative voice.’ The Afghan Whigs Dulli, Curley, Nelson, Keeler and with Christopher Thorn now joining the band on guitar will take ‘How Do You Burn’ out on the road. Beyond that, says Dulli, their future is gloriously wide open. The Afghan Whigs LP is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £21.99