Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
This is the latest album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and as a long-time Nick Cave fan, I don't think he's lost it at all. He's matured perhaps, but some of the songs on this album prove that he's still got it. Nocturama was good, but a couple of songs didn't sit right with me at all. The new double album is incredible, I can't recommend it highly enough.
I think 'Get Reader For Love' and 'There She Goes, My Beautiful World' are the only songs on the albums that I really don't like. I won't go into how they sound poppy or commercial (seeing as I like 'Nature Boy'), but to me they both sound awful. I'm no good at describing my ideas about music or movies, so I'll just say that I pretty much dislike those two, but songs like 'Let The Bells Ring' (especially that opening guitar, that is absolutely beautiful), 'O Children', 'Babe You Turn Me On', and 'Hiding All Away' just blow my mind.
I've only seen him play twice, once for the And No More Shall We Part tour, and again just under a year ago for the Nocturama tour. I can't wait until he comes here again.
So after all that rambling, has anyone else got the albums? What do you guys think?
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