Nunca fui demasiado fan de Nick Cave, hay muchísimo en su propuesta que me parecen innecesarias o, incluso, llegan a molestarme. Por ejemplo, me molesta que cante. No creo que lo haga bien y no creo que lo haya hecho nunca. Además, su querencia punk dejó de justificar semejante ejercicio de tortura a partir del momento en que el que empezó a tomarse demasiado en serio a si mismo. También me molesta su gravedad impostada, esa que alcanza su cenit en Push the Sky Away y en Grinderman y, por momentos, raya la vergüenza ajena. Tampoco he conectado nunca con su característica idiosincrasia que, a mi juicio, es demasiado testerónica y me repele. Sin embargo, todo cambió con Skeleton Tree.… More
For me, it's hard to not see this album as an elevation for a survivor of sorts. Cave's two sons have died and I can't understand the depths of those sorrows; I've experienced visceral and all-consuming sorrow in different ways, but I feel—and I may very well be wrong about this—that Cave's spiritual sides have grown beyond that of the christian concept of God, into something that I identify as unitarian universalist.
The first half of the album uses Cave's voice as that of a gospel preacher, rhythmically and repetitively, throwing his audience into a trance. The addition of a gospel choir in a few places doesn't hurt.
I dig how the drums sound as though the mics… More
Me l'he escoltat dues vegades en el que duem de dia i sols diré que tenia moltes ganes que tornara el Nick Cave lluminós, però també el Nick Cave en què es combinen el dolor per la pèrdua de dos fills i la confiança en l'esperança.
After a run of ethereal, mournful albums that left Nick’s singing and speak-singing exposed atop Warren Ellis’ quivering synths and queasy loops, Wild God is the first work in a while that makes full use of the Bad Seeds.
The more feral and jubilant moments on Carnage – a lockdown project credited to just Cave and Ellis – hinted at what might await us once the Bad Seeds could get back in a room together, but still they exceed expectations. It’s particularly special to hear Tommy Wydler on drums again. Rejuvenated after a long illness,, he announces himself in the very first second with a walloping, cymbal-cracking performance on ‘Song of the Lake’, a contender for their best album opener… More
one of my all time favourite songwriters, i really want to like this more than i do, but something about this just isn't hitting right with me all the way. score might change for the better, hopefully not for the worst.
Con un espiritu mucho más animado que en sus anteriores trabajo, y tampoco es casualidad que darle mas peso a los bad seeds haya influido en que haya sacado su mejor álbum en la pasada década. Sus letras son el fiel reflejo de alguien que en frenta las pérdidas hasta no solo el punto de la aceptación sino yendo más alla para invitarnos a la esperanza y a seguir disfrutando de la belleza de la cida.
Ran to it and almost got goose bumps from the title track. Besides from that it only slowed me down. Will give it a bit more time but feels pretty dull.