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{{Infobox album
| name       = Ballad of the Broken Seas
| type       = [[Album]]
| artist     = [[Isobel Campbell]] & [[Mark Lanegan]]
| cover      = Ballad of the Broken Seas.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 7 March 2006
| recorded   = 2005
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Folk rock]]
| length     = 42:45
| label      = [[V2 Records|V2]]
| producer   = [[Isobel Campbell]], Dave Paterson
| chronology = [[Isobel Campbell]] & [[Mark Lanegan]]
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[Sunday at Devil Dirt]]
| next_year  = 2008
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r821669|pure_url=yes}}|title=Ballad of the Broken Seas - Isobel Campbell|publisher=[[Allmusic]]}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Drowned in Sound]]''
|rev2score = {{Rating|8|10}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/6988|title=Isobel Campbell, Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas|website=DrownedInSound|access-date=2015-12-10|archive-date=2015-12-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211113114/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/6988|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Pitchfork Media]]''
|rev3score = (7.2/10)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1747-ballad-of-the-broken-seas/|title=Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Ballad of the Broken Seas|website=Pitchfork}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]''
|rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/mark-lanegan-ballad-broken-seas-isobel-campbell|title=Music Review: Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas (with Isobel Campbell)|website=Tiny Mix Tapes}}</ref>
}}
'''''Ballad of the Broken Seas''''' is an [[album]] by [[Isobel Campbell]] and [[Mark Lanegan]], their first collaboration.  It made the shortlist for the 2006 [[Mercury Music Prize]] and was one of ''[[NME]]'''s top one hundred albums of the decade.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade|url=https://www.nme.com/list/the-top-100-greatest-albums-of-the-decade/158049/|work=NME.com|accessdate=8 May 2013|date=18 November 2009}}</ref>
The Mercury nomination provoked some criticism, as Lanegan was [[United States|American]] and the award is for [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] artists only. However, Campbell wrote most of the tracks and produced the album. Campbell had written the music and some of the lyrics before sending it to Lanegan.
==Track listing==
{{tracklist
| all_writing = Isobel Campbell except where noted
| title1 = Deus Ibi Est
| length1 = 2:51
| title2 = Black Mountain
| note2 = music based in part on the traditional melody "[[Scarborough Fair (ballad)|Scarborough Fair]]"
| length2 = 3:10
| title3 = The False Husband
| length3 = 3:53
| title4 = Ballad of the Broken Seas
| length4 = 2:42
| title5 = Revolver
| note5 = [[Mark Lanegan]]
| length5 = 2:40
| title6 = [[Ramblin' Man (Hank Williams song)|Ramblin' Man]]
| note6 = [[Hank Williams]]
| length6 = 3:29
| title7 = (Do You Wanna) Come Walk with Me?
| length7 = 3:27
| title8 = Saturday's Gone
| length8 = 4:37
| title9 = It's Hard to Kill a Bad Thing
| note9 = Jim McCulloch
| length9 = 2:53
| title10 = Honey Child What Can I Do?
| note10 = Campbell, Simon Shaw
| length10 = 3:44
| title11 = Dusty Wreath
| length11 = 3:44
| title12 = The Circus Is Leaving Town
| length12 = 5:35
}}
==Personnel==
* [[Mark Lanegan]] - vocals
* [[Isobel Campbell]] - vocals, piano, cello, harpsichord, tubular bells, glockenspiel
* Alyn Cosker - drums
* Jim McCulloch - guitars
* Ross Hamilton - double bass (1,6-8), bass guitar (4,10,12)
* David Robertson - bodhran (1), percussion (8), congas (9)
* Bill Wells - bass guitar (2,3), piano (4), vibraphone (8)
* [[John McCusker]] - solo violin (4)
* Joshua Blanchard - acoustic guitar (5)
* Eddi Nappi - bass guitar (5)
* Norm Block - drums (5)
* Geoff Allen - whip (6)
* Claire Campbell - violin (8)
* Helen Thompson - harp (10)
* [[Chris Geddes]] - Hammond organ (12)
* Paul Leonard Morgan - string arrangements (3-5,9-10)
==References==
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[[Category:2006 collaborative albums]]
[[Category:Folk rock albums]]
[[Category:Isobel Campbell albums]]
[[Category:Mark Lanegan albums]]
[[Category:V2 Records albums]]
[[Category:Vocal duet albums]]
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