release date: Feb. 3, 2003
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,18]
producer: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nick Launay
label: ANTI-, USA - nationality: Australia
Track highlights: 1. "Wonderful Life" - 3. "Right Out of Your Hand" - 4. "Bring It On" - 10. "Babe, I'm on Fire"
12th studio album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds following the two-year old No More Shall We Part is originally released by Mute Records (ANTI- for the American market).
This is yet another quiet, dark and sinister sounding album like its most recent three predecessors without adding much new.
To me, this is a lesser release by Nick Cave - not mediocre but touching on repetitious. The songs are nicely produced and the playing, well, there ain't much complaining about that, it's just a bit... "And so what?" We've heard it all before, and there's like no nerve left - nothing at stake with Cave going through the motions 'cause-that's-what-he-had-to-do - again. A track that seems a bit "way off" from the rest is the almost astonishing final track, "Babe, I'm on Fire" with a running time above 14:30 minutes. Being a much more up-tempo and blues punk composition it would have fitted nicely on Let Love In (1994).
[ allmusic.com 2,5 / 5, The Guardian, Uncut, Q Magazine, Rolling Stone 3 / 5 stars ]
[ allmusic.com 2,5 / 5, The Guardian, Uncut, Q Magazine, Rolling Stone 3 / 5 stars ]
