Nocturama - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

A new Nick Cave album - so soon? I thought it must be a spoken word album, or an album of cover versions. But no, ten new songs. I'm intrigued. His last album was a disappointment of sorts. Tremendous songs, certainly, but overall it felt like the old goat was trying to hard. The ballads sounded overworked, self-consciously refined, and the rest sounded slightly jaded. A deeply moving album, but one which needed as much effort to listen to as it sounded like it took to make. 'Nocturama' by contrast sounds like it was written in an afternoon. The Bad Seeds work their old tricks, but do so with such effortlessness that you'd think ...  Read the complete review

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Nocturama (2003) Producer: Nick Launay, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Wonderful Life He Wants You Right Out of Your Hand Bring It On Dead Man in My Bed Still in Love There is a Town Rock of Gibraltar She Passed by My Window Babe, I'm on Fire I love Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and I've never tried to hide this fact from you, the lovely public. I consider Nick Cave to be one of the greatest lyricists in the music industry and the Bad Seeds to be one of the tightest bands around. Over the years the band has successfully gone through several transitions to ...  Read the complete review

Who the heck are they ? Well the Bad Seeds line up is quite fluid, strangely Nick Cave is always Nick Cave. On this particular outing the musicians are: Nick Cave: Vocals, Piano, Hammond Mick Harvey: Guitar, Organ, Bass Percussion Blixa Bargeld : Pedal Steel Guitar, Guitar Thomas Wydler: Drums, Percussion Martyn P Casey : Bass Jim Sclavunos : Percussion, Drums Warren Ellis : Violin This is the twelfth Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds CD. Track Listing: 1. Wonderful Life 6/10 'Plunge your hands into the water And drown it in the sea There will be nothing between us, baby But the ...  Read the complete review

There may be no commercial, chart topping friendly, short lived blooms here, but the Bad Seeds latest harvest is certainly rich with shade loving songs that should grace anyone's life long garden. Indeed all shades of life, death and love are here. None of Nick Cave's work can be rushed, his work is for a more patient type. His band's influences are as varied their style. This album swings effortlessly from the chaotic chordal rhythms of; 'Dead Man in my Bed', and 'Babe I'm on Fire', to the jazzy syncopations of 'Rock of Gibralter', and back to the familiar comfort of their Scott Walkeresque almost hymn like songs. ...  Read the complete review