Anthology: SST Years
Recorded
1985–1989
Released
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Not quite a summary of the band’s earliest days — in keeping with the subtitle, there are no selections from their first album Clairvoyance — Anthology is still a well-chosen overview of the Screaming Trees as they steadily built up both a catalog and a reputation in the ’80s indie rock underground. Mark Lanegan’s more youthful voice has a bit of the crag of his later years if not the full pathos, but he’s an engaging frontman regardless, while Gary Lee Conner’s hooky guitar work and the Van Conner/Mark Pickerel rhythm section result in solid garage/psych grooves.