I've been on a huge Nick Cave trip lately, since his amazing live album that was released last week, at the time of publishing. Idiot Prayer is just him alone at a piano at Alexandra Palace in London and it's the most affecting live piece that I've ever heard.
Push The Sky Away however, is a mellower reckoning, an ode to Brighton on the South coast of England, best encapsulated by the glistening tracks "Wide Lovely Eyes" and " Water's Edge" - and glancing through Wikipedia just now, it seems that various reviewers mention the fogginess, tenderness, funeral-pace, hollowness and rumbling bass-lines to name but a few characteristics.
When the majority of talk is often about the full-bodiedness of The Bad Seeds' swampy characteristics and nooks and crannies, fucking cracks and crevices - I am fully on board - but it's a bit like when PJ Harvey's White Chalk came in at #54 in the decade prior on this blog - I have a moonward boon towards musicians that distill their infuences into chill pills, and for all the blues and heavy bass - I'll rest at this pace. Come again.
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