New Nick Cave
Aug. 8th, 2004 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonYou can hear samples from two songs from Nick Cave's upcomign double album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus at nickcaveandthebadseeds.com.
Not too sure what I think of Nature Boy--I'm not that impressed by the snippet. But There She Goes, My Beautiful World sounds very interesting. Also on that page is a link to some lyrics from the upcoming album. It sounds like now that Nick has quit smack and and works in his office from 9-5 and is over the obsessive phase of new love and his twins are leaving the need attention every five minutes phase, he's suddenly started noticing the larger world around him and is writing about war and tv and frappucinos and so forth, the sort of thing foreshadowed by God Is in the House. I really did not like that song when I first heard it and found his sudden political bent jarring, but after hearing it live it really grew on me. So hopefully this new stuff will as well. I suppose in some ways it's just SCUM for grownups, and I should be glad the man is happy. I do like the lyrics to There She Goes, My Beautiful World. But oh how I wish for another album with the intensity and power of Let Love In, and I don't really get the feeling that this album will be it.
Part of the problem is that I do not like Nick Launay's production work at all (he also produced Nocturama, and before that produced some Birthday Party stuff in what wasanother lifetime ago for al concerned). I wish it were still Mick Harvey doing all the work. Also, I was trying very hard to believe that Blixa's leaving the Bad Seeds might not affect the overall sound *that* much, since Mick Harvey is really the bedrock of the band in many ways, but it appears I was wrong. There's this very commercial adult rock gloss over the music that is pretty distasteful.
Can't really judge the double album by two snippets and four song lyrics, though. I will buy it and try to listen with an open mind, pretending Nocturama never happened (though I guess that right there isn't very open of me, is it). I'm very afraid of a double album of mediocrity, though, and I'm as judgmental as one of Nick's bygone protagonists. Honestly, Nocturama broke my heart, no exaggeration. Oh Nick, sometimes I swear I can still hear your howl, down through the wreckage and the ruins.
Not too sure what I think of Nature Boy--I'm not that impressed by the snippet. But There She Goes, My Beautiful World sounds very interesting. Also on that page is a link to some lyrics from the upcoming album. It sounds like now that Nick has quit smack and and works in his office from 9-5 and is over the obsessive phase of new love and his twins are leaving the need attention every five minutes phase, he's suddenly started noticing the larger world around him and is writing about war and tv and frappucinos and so forth, the sort of thing foreshadowed by God Is in the House. I really did not like that song when I first heard it and found his sudden political bent jarring, but after hearing it live it really grew on me. So hopefully this new stuff will as well. I suppose in some ways it's just SCUM for grownups, and I should be glad the man is happy. I do like the lyrics to There She Goes, My Beautiful World. But oh how I wish for another album with the intensity and power of Let Love In, and I don't really get the feeling that this album will be it.
Part of the problem is that I do not like Nick Launay's production work at all (he also produced Nocturama, and before that produced some Birthday Party stuff in what wasanother lifetime ago for al concerned). I wish it were still Mick Harvey doing all the work. Also, I was trying very hard to believe that Blixa's leaving the Bad Seeds might not affect the overall sound *that* much, since Mick Harvey is really the bedrock of the band in many ways, but it appears I was wrong. There's this very commercial adult rock gloss over the music that is pretty distasteful.
Can't really judge the double album by two snippets and four song lyrics, though. I will buy it and try to listen with an open mind, pretending Nocturama never happened (though I guess that right there isn't very open of me, is it). I'm very afraid of a double album of mediocrity, though, and I'm as judgmental as one of Nick's bygone protagonists. Honestly, Nocturama broke my heart, no exaggeration. Oh Nick, sometimes I swear I can still hear your howl, down through the wreckage and the ruins.
