Bad Seeds, Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part
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Free Music Review: His musical vision here is dead on and focused
Hit: 5 Stars
This is easily NC's most mature CD. His musical vision here is dead on and focused. The subject's range from drug addition (15 feet of pure white snow, Hallelujah), paranoia (Oh my lord, great opening line here "I thought I'll take a walk today - a mistake I sometimes make"), lost love and marital alienation (Sorrowful wife). There are times on this CD where NC sounds downright romantic (Sweetheart come, love letter), but then again both songs develop with even richer meanings than I just implied. Nick Cave is at the top of his song writing skills on this CD and we all benefit. I have to add here that I saw the Birthday Party some 20 years ago, really one of the best live shows that I have ever attended. I've heard most of the Bad Seed material put out in the eighties and always enjoyed the records. In recent years I haven't followed his career having dismissed him as being past his prime. Was I ever wrong. This is not the Birthday Party or early Bad Seeds. It is something else entirely but just as rewarding and wonderful.Free Music Review: Stunning
Hit: 5 Stars
Nick Caves No More Shall We Part is a journey through emotion. To listen to this you have to listen to it by yourself- so that you can appreciate it to a level of glory. The sheer quality of the music on this album is enough to make anyone with taste instantly buy it. Perfectly produced and put together, No More Shall We Part boasts 12 amazing ballads which provoke, shock and hypnotise with every listen. You can't help feel the sorrow of "No More Shall We Part" or the fear of "15 Feet Of Pure White Snow", however what makes this album is the suttle beginnings which are very low key and slow, to the uprorias epic "The Sorrowful Wife" which blazes in a way which can only be described by hearing.
If you are new to Nick Cave, this is the essential album that must be bought. Whoever has the pleasure of owning this album will know how addictive it is and the sheer beauty of what Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have created.
Free Music Review: The master returns...
Hit: 5 Stars
"No more shall we part" is a heart-felt, low-key affair. It certainly features more of a full band sound than the wonderful "Boatman's Call", but the playing is sympathetic, laid back and restrained. Center stage is Cave's huge, dark voice delivering some of the most sophisticated lyrics in the history of "pop" music. This might well be his most mature batch of songs, offering truly insightful thoughts on life, love, faith, death... all the big ones. For it's high concerns, it never seems full of pretense. Cave is the real thing, not a pseudointellectual, but a really inspiring thinker and writer. There really aren't many pop albums like this. It's intelligent, beautifully played, sung with nuance and wisdom, a wonderfully produced. The otherworldy female harmonies (compliments of the Sisters McGarrigle) add pathos and splendor. Perfect late-night listening. My highest recomendation.Free Music Review: It Grows On You.....ALOT
Hit: 5 Stars
My first few listens were a little disappointing. I'm a HUGE Nick Cave fan and I've always favored the upbeat, macabre songs (The Curse Of Millhaven, Up Jumped The Devil, etc). There are no upbeat songs on this album. The piano and Nick's amazing voice are the focus of the album. Once I accepted the fact that it is a down-tempo cd....I couldn't stop listening to it. It is truly a beautiful album with not a bad track on it. Nick's lyrics are as great as we've come to expect. After a few hundred listens (I'm obsessed) I place this in my 'Top 3' Nick Cave cd's. No More Shall We Part ranks up with Henry's Dream and Let Love In in my opinion. Of the 2 "quiet" albums (The Boatman's Call and this one) I think there is no comparison. I like The Boatman's Call, but this simply blows it away. I only hope Nick and The Bad Seeds can keep it up. It will be hard to top this; but they always deliver.Free Music Review: "All outward motion connects to nothing" - Nick Cave
Hit: 5 Stars
I have been a Cave fan since I bought "Let Love In" after I heard Metallica's cover of "Loverman." I must have listened to "The Boatman's Call" 100+ times, and I have a great many other works of Nick on my computer. And I must say that this album is simply beautiful. Some hold that the last album bordered on excessive eloquence and melodrama; these accusations might hold some truth. In any case, this recording, in my opinion, deftly sidesteps those problems. Each song is a simply-woven, elegant tale in and of itself, while the themes of love, death, and God (typical Cave fare) run deeply through the entire document. "Boatman's Call" also lacked songs of a more energetic flavor. Songs such as "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow" and "Oh My Lord" help the newest album to avoid this pitfall. The long wait has been well worth it.