release date: Mar. 3, 2008
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,16]
producer: Nick Launay, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
label: Mute Records - nationality: Australia
Track highlights: 3. "Moonland" - 5. "Albert Goes West" - 6. "We Call Upon the Author" - 11. "More News From Nowhere"
14th studio album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds released 3½ years following Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus from 2004 is a more garage rock-styled album, and as such closer to the style of the side-project band, Grinderman, which feature members of The Bad Seeds.
To me, this sounds much like music inspired to some extent by Iggy & The Stooges - more than previous albums by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, although, The Stooges always has been a big source of inspiration for Nick Cave.
I don't find it all bad, it's just not as good as what I have come to associate with The Bad Seeds.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, The Independent, Q Magazine, Spin, Rolling Stone 4 / 5 stars ]
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5, The Independent, Q Magazine, Spin, Rolling Stone 4 / 5 stars ]
