Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - New album PUSH THE SKY AWAY - Anticipate!

Couldn't finish that, got bored. Honestly, I think I will just wait for the record to come out.

I listen to albums exclusively track by track via strategically released youtube streams, spread out over the course of weeks. That's how we do it in '13.

Q (represented by ilxor DL) gives this 3 stars, Uncut 9/10, Mojo 4 stars. Sounds like it's a relatively subdued one all the way through.

Pained me to give it 3/5 given how much I've loved his post-2003 rebirth but it really drags in places. At least the highs and very high.

are very high

I'm suspicious of Uncut's 9/10. The review fills three pages including an interview. Mojo didn't even put it in a box - it's just one 100-worder among dozens.

Streaming: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/feb/08/nick-cave-push-sky-away-stream

Jubilee Street the only one that grabs me. The rest sound like not-very-good prose being read over a barely-thought-about backing.

I do wish he'd retire - at least from music. Maybe become a screenwriter or an actor. Move to Hollywood. Or become a teacher of creative writing.

When the well's run dry, Nick, the well has run dry.

His last eight or so albums and film scores have been Quite Good to Amazing though, you're rushing to put him out to pasture after one snoozer

one listen in and i think it is pretty good. i have never been a nick cave fan though he was big in my student days in the mid-eighties in germany. it sounds very laid-back, pretty calm and slghtly bluesy, nothing really new there but like the tindersticks album last year it feels very mature, the kind of stuff for forty-somethings like me who prefer bands who have their own sound and are no boring copycats like most of the bands these days.

Pro recording of last night's show will be up for some hours more so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fymChgeO00g

Ned you are an angel

Hovering over Berlin in 1987, yes.

<3 exactly

Gotta say that the version of "The Ship Song" on this kills.

tried watching that vid but got out-to-pasture vegas showman vibes. I'll always have a soft spot for cave due to the birthday party being one of the greatest things ever but I'm starting to think if he never made another peep after '84 I woulda been ok w/ that alternate history.

tried watching that vid but got out-to-pasture vegas showman vibes.

Ha, well, he's been essentially claiming that very spot since, I don't know 1986? The cover art of Kicking Against the Pricks at least.

Also how had I missed Ed Kuepper was part of the band now!

WHAT

Sez here:

the phenomenally tight Bad Seeds — multi-instrumental Warren Ellis, guitarist (and co-founder of Aussie punks the Saints) Ed Kuepper, drummer Thomas Wylder, bassist Martin Casey, keyboardist Conway Savage and newly returned multi-instrumentalist Barry Adamson

I mean I like how Randall just puts that in there and I'm all "Wait hold on."

Just checked a couple of other sites and yep.

Wait, I think I knew Kuepper was there, but Adamson is back!?

okay that's awesome

OH SHIT

BAZ TOO?

omg

I can't wait to see this vid now

And Adamson is playing drums?

Ha, turns out I DID know about Ed and the Bad Seeds:

Ed Kuepper -- Search and Destroy, Classic or Dud, whatever you fancy

I had just completely forgotten!

this was a good seeds lineup. I don't think adamson and kuepper are on the album, are they? show was great, although red right hand felt kind of limp.

Needs a bell.

The bell makes that song.

what happened to sclavunos?

If you read the comments at the end of the article, someone states that Wydler wasn't there, it was Sclavunos. I'd love some clarification.

Wydler is on sick leave, I believe, with Adamson his current replacement on drums.

Thank you.

Why can't I see this album title without thinking of the Fraggle Rock theme?

Push the sky away
Worries for another day etc etc

looool

so no-one's commenting on the album itself? i'm sensing very conflicting opinions veering from "mature work" to snoozefest. fwiw I quite like the first single.

New album, in my opinion, can beat be described as "lazy." Not much effort put into these songs.

I enjoyed the live set so much I'm not sure whether I want to hear the album!

i think it is great, the instrumentation is rather sparse and minimalistic but i like it that way. it somehow reminds me of the late johnny cash ablbum produced by rick rubin. in other words a snoozefest i like to sleep on.

albums

I liked that live set! Especially the kids' choir once "Jubilee Street" took off: some
almost JC Vannier "L'enfant assassin..." energy happening with those voices and the band.
Nicely done.

This new record is pretty good, I like it. Could live without hearing Nick Cave sing the word "snatch" ever again though, unless in refernce to grabbing the last donut before someone else.

Finally picked this up.

Feel like it's going to sit with me in the same place No More Shall We Part/Nocturama did. I don't *dislike* it, but it's almost a struggle to actively listen to it? It just seems to want to slip into background listening for me at the moment.

But I've only gone through once, I'll give it a few more spins and see what happens.

yeah I see this as a new Nocturama and will need some convincing before buying it

My Aussie brother in law said he was awesome at the Opera House.

https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?ui=2&ik=d652dfb56a&view=att&th=13d20820e1576d73&attid=0.1&disp=inline&safe=1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P-GCHVMnW7hYvQvR6yVxn3W&sadet=1362075613453&sads=yLiOjC8KuvD5wwar36KIX5glb44&sadssc=1

I can't think of a better place to see him perform

Ah, I'm loving this new record, especially Jubilee Street and Higgs Boson Blues. At times the latter suggests John Cale covering Neil Young's On The Beach. Which clearly would be a wonderful (if counter-intuitive) scenario.

jubilee street is his best song after the mercy seat, i reckon.

say whatnow