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RS: 3of 5 Stars Average User Rating: 3.5of 5 Stars

2008

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On his twelfth album with the Bad Seeds, Nick Cave offers more of the gloomy torch songs and demon-exorcising mojo that have made him Australia's ranking goth poet. Sometimes Cave sounds like Leonard Cohen with a better band and a richer voice, as on the trio of pretty, slow-burning ballads that kick off the album. But Cave really gets into high gear on "Dead Man in My Bed" and the fifteen-minute closer, "Babe, I'm on Fire," both garage-rock rave-ups as only Cave could spin them. With organ, drums and violin working up a maelstrom, Cave conjures the spirit of a lost lover and howls like a possessed bluesman about a "blind referee" and an "unlucky amputee." It's the kind of spleen-drenched murkiness that inspires cults, for sure, but most people this pretentious or literary don't rock so hard or write tunes so good.

CRISTIAN HOARD
(From RS 916 – February 20, 2003)



(Posted: Jan 28, 2003)

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