A side project of
Greg Dulli from those zany
Afghan Whigs. He thinks of it in the same light as
David Bowie becoming
Ziggy Stardust.
"I inhabited a persona, the Twilite Kid, who lives in the gray area between day and night. I didn't know who I was, so I made someone up." (Spin, December 2000)
Whatever. Still, the Singers (basically Greg Dulli, some studio musicians and
Fila Brazillia) just released
Twilight... As Played By The Twilight Singers, and it's really good. But not very Afghan Whigs-y.
Soulful, yes, but more downbeat,
moody and appropriately enough,
dusky. It's a lot of
soul, but lots of
strings and
Fila Brazillia's dreamy,
ambient layering. Allegedly, the Singers aren't a
fluke, and that Dulli will still work with the Whigs.