Henry's Dream - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Man, I love this album. I have been listening to it almost non-stop for months now and it never ceases to impress me. Firstly, it creates a much needed balance between the two albums gone before it - Tender Prey and The Good son. For those who had loved Tender Prey, The Good son was a bit of a shock. While the stories Cave told were actually still as deep and unsettling as ever, it was the more simple and direct songs amongst the set such as The Ship Song that perhaps gave the long time Cave fan a bit of a kick in the cherries! The Bad Seeds were becoming far more diverse by exploring the love song as well as the death song, and all for the better for ...  Read the complete review

Henry's Dream is one of the last truly malevolent and angry Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums. Since Henry's Dream and then Let Love In, Nick's newly found personal melancholy has tended to dominate the music of his band. For me, I prefer the dark and fluctuating fury of the band's earlier work, and Henry's Dream, which was released in 1992, is one of the pinnacles of that phase. *The style and theme of Henry's Dream* I can tell you right now, if sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows are your thing, you're not going to enjoy this album. There's not even a distant glimpse of an Anthony Robbins moment on the whole thing. ...  Read the complete review