Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues

NEW VINYL LP ON MUTE 2014

2 X 180 GRAM VINYL.

First album, "Abattoir Blues" throbs with the desperation of a pre-Y2K preacher. In this nine song set, the end of the world is near and while Cave calls "every boy and girl" around the world to praise the heavens above, no one is guaranteed a “get out of hell free” card. Track "Hiding All Away" warns that there's "a war coming from above" and the theme continues, but unlike Sunday morning scammers such as Jim Baker and the like, Cave convinces with lyrics that paint a picture of an aching mother earth facing collapsing under the weight of a greedy avarice society. As Cave puts it in title track, "Abattoir Blues" - "I went to bed last night and my moral code got jammed/I woke up with a Frappucino in my hand" and, while he seems helpless to stop the destruction around him, you get the feeling that Cave would probably be the last man on deck - a good citizen going down with his defeated planet. http://www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com/homet

Tracklist

Get Ready For Love  
Cannibals Hymn  
Hiding All Away  
Messiah Ward  
There She Goes, My Beutiful World  
Nature Boy  
Abattoir Blues  
Let The Bells Ring  
The Fable Of The Brown Ape  
The Lyre Of Orpheus  
Breathless  
Babe You Turn Me On  
Easy Money  
Supernaturally  
Spell  
Carry Me  
Children