release date: Jun. 4, 1985
format: cd (1996 Japan reissue)
album rate: 3 / 5] [3,08]
producer: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Flood
label: Mute Records - nationality: Australia
Track highlights: 1. "Tupelo" (4 / 5) - 2. "Say Goodbye to the Little Girl Tree" (3 / 5) - 4. "Black Crow King" - 6. "Wanted Man"
2nd studio album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds originally released on Mute Records follows one year after the debut From Her to Eternity.
Compared to the debut album, this is a more melodic album, and it signals a final goodbye to no wave. The line-up here is Nick Cave on vocals and harmonica, Blixa Bargeld on guitar, slide guitar, piano and backing vocals, and with both Barry Adamson and Mick Harvey on bass, drums, guitar, organ and backing vocals. This is in fact an early example of music in the genre of alt. rock, which initially was made up of reminiscences of post-punk and art rock, but here with a certain amount of blues rock influences, although, it still displays obvious experimental and post-punk traits.
[ allmusic.com, Rolling Stone Album Guide 4 / 5 stars ]
[ allmusic.com, Rolling Stone Album Guide 4 / 5 stars ]
