Morphine

Morphine make mood music, and the mood is definitely noir. The blue haze hangs over not
only their songs' scenarios – with their temptresses and telling glances – but also the
stripped-down instrumentation: bass, drums and baritone sax, fronted by songwriter Mark
Sandman's weary baritone vocals. On "Thursday," the single from Cure for Pain (1993), he
laid down a hard-boiled narrative replete with motel trysts and pool-hall rendez... More >