Bubblegum

Mark Lanegan Band’s Beggars Banquet debut pairs the singer’s weathered baritone with folk rock arrangements that drift between sparse acoustic meditations and alternative rock muscle. Recorded in the early '90s Pacific Northwest, Bubblegum captures Lanegan’s noir sensibility—all cigarette-stained introspection and minor-key melancholy—over fingerpicked guitars and understated production. A foundational record for the label’s roster, it established Lanegan as something far more textured than a grunge-adjacent vocalist.