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

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.

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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.

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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.

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"Jubilee Street" is this album's "Babe I'm On Fire" - the best song by far on a weak album. Sorry, I love Nick but an album of ALL mellow ballads save one? Not feeling it.

yeah, this is closer to boring Boatman's Call/Nocturama Nick than i was hoping for. did Grinderman shake all the good loud stuff out of him?

upon further listening it's kinda growing on me. Am especially liking Higgs Boson Blues (lol) and Push the Sky Away, and Jubilee Street. It's a bit of a slow grower.

Bought this on vinyl yesterday and it's totally changed my view of this record, it's got such great subtle arrangement and space, lots of low end too which wasn't coming through on spotify...

Yes. I agree with that. This is a great record. None of the songs really work in isolated internet listening.

Opening date of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds US tour is in Louisville, which I am planning on going to check out. I'm not sure he has really played in this area since the Lollapalooza show in Indianapolis back in the mid 90s, which I saw (they followed The Boredoms).