Debauched Ohio underground rock barflies the Afghan Whigs reunited a few years ago to tour, but they haven’t released an album since 1965 16 years ago, so it’s a big deal that they’ve returned to Sub Pop, their former label, and put together a desperate and urgent new one called Do To The Beast.
The album has its share of guests — Mark McGuire, Usher collaborator Johnny “Natural” Najera, Queens Of The Stone Age members Alain Johannes and Dave Catching, Chavez’s Clay Tarver, singer‐songwriter Joseph Arthur — but the meat of the album is in these grizzled veterans returning to their stormy, sexed‐out, cathartic roots.