“It’s been some time since a swaggering Nick Cave has threatened his listeners with violence. Cave’s last record, 2019’s Ghosteen, mourned the sudden loss of his teenage son Arthur with a gut-howl of grief and a parade of horses, boats, suns, young children and Buddhist folk tales, all wrapped up in violinist Warren Ellis’s keening sounds. But midway through this surprise 18th studio album – recor”
““There are some people trying to find out who / There are some people trying to find out why,” Nick Cave announces on ‘Carnage’ opener ‘Hand Of God’, “there are some people who aren’t trying to find anything, but that kingdom in the sky”. Once fans are over their giddy joy at a surprise new album, they’ll soon be poring over this record for answers. What is Cave looking for now? What does he still”
“The longtime collaborators and Bad Seeds bandmates stretch themselves yet again, suggesting there may be no end to the inspiration they have up their sleeves”
“The longtime Bad Seeds seek out the light at the end of the tunnel on their new record”
“Grief. Mourning. More specifically, lamenting the loss of someone you never knew. A weird one. A lot of us have spent the last year in mourning, and quite often mourning for people we’ve never met. The Herculean cricket score of the government’s Covid murder count lingers in the foreground of the news constantly, whilst the only new news is a constant string of beloved celebrity deaths. We’ve had”
“The emotionally potent and timely Carnage finds Nick Cave and Warren Ellis letting loose with the aesthetic they forged on the previous Bad Seeds trilogy.”
