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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – No more shall we part.
Like myself, you may have been wondering how domesticity will have effected Nick Cave's writing? Well it hasn’t, but then again Nick Cave always dug a lot deeper into his soul than the average songsmith. This latest offering by the maestro of melodrama and melancholy is possibly his most haunting, sublime, intense and beautiful album todate. A critic in the eighties once said of Cave that he had two bad habits, heroine and an awful voice. Well you won’t hear a more eloquent, stirring and uplifting voice than he displays on this album with lyrics of pure poetry. An album in which Cave builds up a highly charged atmosphere like those few moments before a thunderstorm breaks out.
Highlights include; ‘And no more shall we part’, a dark and quirky song about relationships, ‘Love letter’, a kind of lullaby about lost love and regret, ‘As I sat sadly by her side’, an existentialist ditty, ‘God is in the house’, a satirical take on quasi-religious small town middle America and ‘Darker with the day’, the perfect finale to the record. In a chart full of mcmusic for the throwaway generation, this record is a breath of fresh air.

other May CD reviews: Gloss | House of Shame | Shed Seven | Nick Cave | Proud Mary