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alonewiththemoonNick Cave is writing a rock opera of Faust for an Icelandic theatre group. I expect that will be extra special.
I finally caved in, ha ha, and bought a copy of Dig, Lazarus, Dig! And I am pleasantly surprised to find that I quite like it, at least on first listen. It's very garage, glam and no wave influenced, in a roots homage kind of way that suits me fine. I like that the music is more freewheeling than the last few albums, while not quite as freewheeling as say Grinderman. There's also a lot of interesting detail going on in the music that keeps a few tracks from sounding too proggy, a line they otherwise could have crossed. But what I really like most of all is that Nick is finally embracing all aspects of his voice again. Once he started singing lessons, he really turned his back on his former style of singing and became very constrained. He says so himself in interviews. On D,L,D! it sounds like he's come to realize there's a time when a lack of technique is entirely appropriate. This album sounds far more like Nick Cave to me than anything since maybe The Boatman's Call. Not that I haven't liked some of that material, but it's been on an "okay let's see where he's going with this" basis. D,L,D! sounds like he knows where he's going.
Saw Coraline in 3D this weekend and loved it, apart from one subplot that made me feel like I was watching Coraline play a video game rather than doing something important towards moving the plot along, as the subplot did in the book. I refer to the way the ghost children were handled. But I could forgive that, given how stunning the film was overall. According to Neil Gaiman's blog the movie will be leaving the 3D theatres in the US by Friday to accomodate a Jonas Brothers movie, so if you wanted to see it in 3D, you'd better do it soon. And do stay until the very end, for something very pretty :-)
There is a rather awful oil smell permeating our office as work is being done on the heating system. Bleargh.
I finally caved in, ha ha, and bought a copy of Dig, Lazarus, Dig! And I am pleasantly surprised to find that I quite like it, at least on first listen. It's very garage, glam and no wave influenced, in a roots homage kind of way that suits me fine. I like that the music is more freewheeling than the last few albums, while not quite as freewheeling as say Grinderman. There's also a lot of interesting detail going on in the music that keeps a few tracks from sounding too proggy, a line they otherwise could have crossed. But what I really like most of all is that Nick is finally embracing all aspects of his voice again. Once he started singing lessons, he really turned his back on his former style of singing and became very constrained. He says so himself in interviews. On D,L,D! it sounds like he's come to realize there's a time when a lack of technique is entirely appropriate. This album sounds far more like Nick Cave to me than anything since maybe The Boatman's Call. Not that I haven't liked some of that material, but it's been on an "okay let's see where he's going with this" basis. D,L,D! sounds like he knows where he's going.
Saw Coraline in 3D this weekend and loved it, apart from one subplot that made me feel like I was watching Coraline play a video game rather than doing something important towards moving the plot along, as the subplot did in the book. I refer to the way the ghost children were handled. But I could forgive that, given how stunning the film was overall. According to Neil Gaiman's blog the movie will be leaving the 3D theatres in the US by Friday to accomodate a Jonas Brothers movie, so if you wanted to see it in 3D, you'd better do it soon. And do stay until the very end, for something very pretty :-)
There is a rather awful oil smell permeating our office as work is being done on the heating system. Bleargh.
