Grinderman - Grinderman

Grinderman (2007) Producer: Nick Launay, Grinderman Get It On No Pussy Blues Electric Alice Grinderman Depth Charge Ethel Go Tell the Women (I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free Honey Bee (Let's Fly To Mars) Man in the Moon When My Love Comes Down Love Bomb Grinderman was formed by the legendary Nick Cave and this is their self-titled debut album, which was released in 2007. Right, first things first, this is not Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Sure, the band consists of the great man himself, Warren Ellis, Martyn P. Casey and Jim Sclavunos, all of whom are members of the aforementioned band, ...  Read the complete review

Grinderman is really the name for the latest Nick Cave project, yet is a far throw away from what you usually expect from Nick Cave. Nick Cave's records recently have been very spiritual and poetic, Grinderman is the opposite, it is immature, groovy, sacrilegious. hip hop, rocking The music uses feedback and Hammond organs to excess, as well as little riffs that make no sense in a Captain Beefheart style. It sounds like rock and roll resurrected. But an alien kind of rock and roll - like none you have ever heard before The lyrics are genius, especially on Go Tell The Women We're Leaving and No Pussy Blues. Is this Nick Cave's ...  Read the complete review

Grinderman with their self-titled album Grinderman was a Nick Cave side-project before his latest album Dig Lazarus Dig, Grinderman has been described as "old men ageing disgracefully" and that's exactly what it is, it sounds like old gits obsessed with girls but it doesn't really try to be anything different. The album came about when Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds were tired following extensive and perhaps excessive touring of their 13 album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus. Nick Cave started to write some songs on guitar, Nick Cave rarely uses guitar and it therefore brings a very raw flavour to the band, somewhat different to any of The Bad Seeds albums ...  Read the complete review