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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
Released: 18/02/2013
Bad Seeds Ltd
It looks like Nick Cave put libidinous ‘side-project’ Grinderman to bed with his desire to rock well satiated. There’s not a distortion pedal in sight on the Bad Seeds’ mellow, melodic follow up to 2008’s Dig, Lazarus Dig!!!, with Cave on deliciously cryptic form throughout (‘Hannah Montana does the African Savanna’, anyone?). Hear album highlight ‘Jubilee Street’ here.
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100%
The Independent“Album of the year?...” The album is dominated by the sea, with several songs written as observations from Cave's Brighton study window overlooking the beach, and the music progressing as a series of gently pulsing waves, each song pushing the next forward...
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70 %
allmusic“Painted with a deliberately limited sonic palette...” Despite excellent songs, this album feels more like an extension of Cave and Ellis' more cinematic work than a Bad Seeds record. This more economical approach is jarring and delightfully unsettling...
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80 %
The Telegraph“You emerge feeling strangely scoured and soothed...” Freighted deep with lugubrious rolls of oily bass, sandy inhalations of desert strings, holy intonations and salty lust, Push the Sky Away is the audio equivalent of bathing in the Dead Sea...
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80 %
The Observer“A very good record indeed...” Shares some ground with the Bad Seeds' 00s output on love songs such as Wide Lovely Eyes. Mostly, though, it's not love that's eating Cave, now living in Brighton: it's being a spectator rather than an active participant in the mating rituals...
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70 %
Drowned In Sound“Not the Bad Seeds at their zenith...” What the album is missing is viscerality, be it of the thunder and blood variety or simply out and out heartstring tugging. There's something slightly vague at the heart of a lot of it...
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80 %
Pitchfork“Less narratively focussed, more stream-of-consciousness haze...” Where the Bad Seeds' mellow records usually find Cave in pensive, piano-man mode, Push the Sky Away presents an uncharacteristically weightless, eerily atmospheric sound...
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80 %
Guardian“Funeral-paced songs and stripped-down music...” There aren't the guitar storms of a Mercy Seat or Do You Love Me? but Jubilee Street – a beguiling tale of brothels and hypocrisy – could quietly become another Seeds classic...
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95%
The Line of Best Fit“Experimental yet built on superb songwriting...” Has very little interest in resorting to comfortingly familiar mannerisms either in songwriting or delivery. Whilst admittedly slow-burning, it’s a tense, fractured, bristling listen that grows in stature and intensity with each listen...
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The Skinny“Sombre, lilting...” This work is best summed up in a classic manner on the elegiac title track. ‘Some people say it’s just rock ‘n’ roll, ah but it gets you right down to your soul.’ Amen...
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Clash Music“A work of lyrical reflection and musical transcendence...” Potent in its masculine restraint, this record has surely always existed, just waiting to be plucked from the surf; a mercurial, magisterial, stick of seaside rock...
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