Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Publicado el 3/10/19 por Ghosteen Ltd
Artistas principales: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Género Alternativa & Indie

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Back in the day, Nick Cave made rock’n’roll with the Bad Seeds. Though as the years have gone by the Australian’s style has evolved, particularly due to the premature death of his 15-year-old son. Ever since, he has used music as a kind of spiritual outlet, reaching a peak with Skeleton Tree - one of his greatest records but also one of the hardest to understand. Throughout the history of humanity, the mourning process has given rise to artistic creation and with this album, released in 2016, Cave became another craftsman in this category. There was no longer any barrier between the grief of what he went through and the words and notes he recorded. Three years later, the rock crooner has produced a sequel to what was thought to be an unbeatable Skeleton Tree. As the seventeenth studio album made with the Bad Seeds, Ghosteen is split in two: “The songs on the first album are the children. The songs on the second album are their parents.” In 2017, Cave declared that the next Bad Seeds’ record would not be an answer to Skeleton Tree but rather “the artistic completion of a trilogy of albums we began with Push the Sky Away.” In terms of melody and rhythm, Ghosteen’s eleven tracks are anything but conventional. The frontman’s voice and lyrics are the driving force, accompanied by layers of synths and loops composed by Warren Ellis and joined by a few haunting piano notes and a distant violin. Nick Cave has joined his brothers-in-arms Leonard Cohen and Scott Walker. And Nico from Desertshore as well. Yet the Australian’s journey here is mostly solitary as he constructs a world where pain becomes a dream and tears are transformed into morning dew. To mix despair with empathy, sadness and faith in this way is something quite unprecedented in pop music today. The atmosphere is mirrored on the album cover too: a drawing as beautiful as it is kitsch, as if it has been taken from a collection of fairy tales with magical animals and multi-coloured vegetation. One leaves Ghosteen without knowing if all this is heaven or hell. Or perhaps both at the same time? © Marc Zisman/Qobuz

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