Mark Lanegan’s 2014 album Phantom Radio here gets the remix treatment, with Moby, Greg Dulli and UNKLE among those offering fresh interpretations of the material. More electronic than some of Lanegan’s previous releases, Phantom Radio lends itself well to the remix format, and though one or two of the tunes lapse into self-indulgence, A Thousand Miles Of Midnight is a generally rewarding listen.
The songs are reimagined in a variety of styles, with Mark Stewart giving ‘Death Trip To Tulsa’ an industrialised feel, UNKLE reshaping ‘The Killing Season’ into an uptempo electro track and Moon Gangs taking ‘No Bells On Sunday’ into Autechre/Coil-like ambient territory. The standout track is ‘Seventh Day’, remade into a psych-tinged electro epic courtesy of Tom Furse, synth guru with the brilliant Horrors, while Earth – aka Seattle veteran and close friend of Kurt Cobain, Dylan Carlson – does a nice (well, nasty) discordant dub version of ‘Waltzing In Blue’.
Lanegan says in the album’s accompanying notes that all of the featured remixers are artists he greatly admires, and the singer must be mightily pleased with the end results. Though it would have benefitted from tighter editing on certain tracks, as remix projects go, A Thousand Miles Of Midnight is among the more essential.

Key Track - 'Seventh Day'