release date: Feb. 18, 2013
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,56]
producer: Nick Launay with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
label: Bad Seed Ltd. - nationality: Australia
Track highlights:
1. "We No Who U R" (4 / 5) -
2. "Wide Lovely Eyes" (live on KCRW) -
4. "Jubilee Street" -
5. "Mermaids" (live) -
9. "Push the Sky Away"
15th studio album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds following 5 whole years after Dig, Lazurus, Dig!!! (2008).
Stylistically, this is still mostly slow ballads in the alt. rock and singer / songwriter category, which means what sounds like a more natural follow-up to No More Shall We Part from 2001. The very first track sounds a bit (too much) like Tindersticks on their most recent chamber pop alt. rock album with some jazz influence, and generally, the first half of the album promise a truly great album but the second half drags it a bit down, I think.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5, NME 4,5 / 5, Rolling Stone 3 / 5 stars ]
