The band skilled a mainstream breakthrough in 1992 when their massive-sounding Candy Oblivion single "Almost Misplaced You" was featured on the soundtrack to the well timed Seattle-set rom-com 'Singles.'
Mark Lanegan, frontman of ’90s alt-rock hitmakers Screaming Timber who went on to have an extended and acclaimed profession as a solo artist, died on Tuesday. A submit on Lanegan’s official Twitter account introduced that he “handed away this morning at his residence in Killarney, Eire.” He was 57.
The Washington-born Lanegan based Screaming Timber with guitarist Gary Lee Conner, bassist Van Conner and drummer Mark Pickerel within the mid-’80s. Signing to storied indie label SST in 1986, the band grew to become a part of the Seattle space’s rising grunge scene, and skilled a mainstream breakthrough in 1992 (with new drummer Barrett Martin) when their massive-sounding Candy Oblivion single “Almost Misplaced You” was featured on the soundtrack to the well timed Seattle-set rom-com Singles. The track peaked at No. 5 on Billboard‘s Various Airplay chart, one among 4 appearances from the group on the itemizing — together with “All I Know,” the group’s second prime 10 hit (from their Mud album) in 1996.
In 2000, amidst a vastly modified alt-rock panorama, the group break up up. Lanegan had lengthy since embarked upon a solo profession by that time, which might flower with well-reviewed units like 2004’s Bubblegum and 2012’s Blues Funeral, which additionally marked his highest-peaking set on the Billboard 200 albums chart (No. 99). He additionally maintained creative partnerships with quite a few different notable alt-rockers of the interval, together with Queens of the Stone Age (singing on album highlights like Rated R‘s “Within the Fade” and Songs For the Deaf‘s “God Is within the Radio”), Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs (with whom Lanegan launched 2008’s Saturnalia as “The Gutter Twins”) and Isobel Campbell of Belle and Sebastian (with whom Lanegan launched three LPs, most just lately 2010’s Hawk).
“A beloved singer, songwriter, creator and musician he was 57 and is survived by his spouse Shelley,” the tweet from his official account immediately continued. “No different data is accessible right now. We ask Please respect the household privateness.”
This story first appeared on Billboard.com.