Yeah, yeah, we all know that the perverted old Grinderman is dead. But don’t offer your condolences. Nick Cave is too proud! Besides, he’s doing just fine without the functional use of his id, thank you very much! As a matter of fact, as Pitchfork reports, he and his band The Bad Seeds are set to release Push the Sky Away (their 15th studio album!) next February. “Yeah, but,” I can hear you saying to yourself, “just how sleazy is the follow-up to 2008’s sex-and-drug-addled sleaze-fest Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (TMT Review) gonna be without the influence of Grinderman?” Well, reader, I don’t know. But the new one depicts a clean-shaven and sharply dressed Cave hanging out with a tastefully nude woman in a corridor bathed in mysterious light on its cover. So I’m kinda thinking that this one is just going to be a, um, mellower kind of sleazy?
Either way, we’ll all find out together whether this new album is worthy of soundtracking ritualistic masturbation when it’s released on Feburary 18 (in the UK) and 19 (in the US). Pre-orders are up now at the band’s webpage, and the first single, “We No Who U R” will be available on December 3. In the meantime, you’ll have to content yourself with the tracklisting and album trailer below, in which Cave and his band members almost do things in a studio for about four minutes. He does say something about eating a Pygmy towards the end though, so… there’s still plenty of hope for depravity!
Push the Sky Away tracklisting:
01. We No Who U R
02. Wide Lovely Eyes
03. Water’s Edge
04. Jubilee Street
05. Mermaids
06. We Real Cool
07. Finishing Jubilee Street
08. Higgs Boson Blues
09. Push the Sky Away
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: http://www.nickcave.com
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