Let Love In - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Let Love In (1994) Producer: Tony Cohen Do You Love Me? Nobody's Baby Now Loverman Jangling Jack Red Right Hand I Let Love In Thirsty Dog Aint Gonna Rain Anymore Lay Me Low Do You Love Me? (Part 2) Let Love In is the eighth studio album by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and was released in 1994. After Nick Cave had been somewhat unnecessarily distressed at the production work found on their previous studio album, Henry's Dream, he had all but condemned that record to the watery depths. An odd decision, as in my eyes the production on Henry's Dream was ...  Read the complete review

I get a little nervous...a little anxious when I review an album, or a book, or a film which is so much more than any series of words that I can lay on a screen. Such is the case with Let Love In, the 1994 offering from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. However, being a little out of sorts is a good thing when it comes to Nick and the lads. After all, listening to their music is like ding donging your way up and down a xylophone of seldom-used but strangely interesting emotions - dark emotions. Let Love In is everything a fan of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds could wish for - an artist's palette of anger, remorse, regret, and self-destruction. *Cover art* We ...  Read the complete review

"I found her on a night of fire and noise, Wild bells rang in a wild sky, And I knew from that moment on That I would love her 'til the day I died" Nick Cave has a way of opening albums as he means them to continue, of branding its themes and its tones into those first lines like a storyteller setting his scene. For this is indeed a wild, passionate album, that has little room for the mundanity of everyday life - he lets Love in, and he lets Death in, but little else. Written between 'Henrys Dream' and 'The Boatmans Call', 'Let love In' marks a transitional period in the singer's work, a point along ...  Read the complete review