Mark Lanegan - former Screaming Tree, part-time Queen of the Stone Age - teams up with his old chum Duke Garwood for their second LP in a half-decade (though they've worked on some stuff together in between). Lanegan's vocal performance on With Animals is rote at this point- if you've liked his rich baritone in the past (and most people have) then you'll like it here too / but the music is some of the most interesting he's been involved with in a while. Full of smoky organs and gently pattering electronic drums, this record is reminiscent of when Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds did a stylistic 180 on Push The Sky Away.