Mark Lanegan, former Screaming Trees frontman and current member of Queens Of The Stone Age, has one of the best voices in rock. A whiskey soaked, 40 a day growl that bursts out the speakers full of menacing promise and testament to a life lived to the full.

Here, as a prelude to his forthcoming solo album, we have a typically bluesy, raw double header, where the famous Lanegan croak is ably backed up by a wall of fuzz, as drums and guitars and bass overload to outdo each other.

There's always a place in my heart for shit kicking, bar room brawling rock n' roll and this is exactly that. With the album set to feature collaborations with other members of the scuzz rock royalty such as Greg Dulli and Polly Harvey, this is a tasty appetiser for what should be one of the rock albums of the year.