Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Wild God LP (Clear Vinyl)

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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds return with 2024 album Wild God.

"I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it's had on me. It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It's a complicated record, but it's also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a masterplan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played them. Listening to this, I don't know, it seems we're happy." -Nick Cave

Where many veteran artists' careers can be clearly demarcated by phases, or charted by peaks and valleys, Cave's has been more like a perpetually rolling snowball that now resembles an avalanche....the Bad Seeds have emerged from the fog of Ghosteen a changed band—while Wild God goes a long way toward reinstating their imposing sense of grandeur and groove (complemented here by Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood), the band now occupies a more celestial realm, embracing a style of symphonic space rock that evokes the alternately thrilling and terrifying sensation of sitting in an airplane as it lifts off the tarmac.

...compared to Skeleton Tree and Ghosteen, Wild God sounds bold, impassioned, and very much alive, acknowledging the yin of grief and the yang of survival....Where the Bad Seeds' work on the previous two albums was spare, Wild God is muscular and dynamic, with the musicians lending a broad and vivid tonal palate to Cave's songs that feels theatrical without crossing the line into melodrama. The same can be said of Cave's vocals; he sings from the heart and delivers some of the most emotionally resonant work of his career on this album....a potent celebration of life amidst chaos and cruel fate...