Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
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Music CD Cover Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Edition: Music CD Format: Limited Edition, Special Edition CD Release Date: 2008-04-08 Music Label: Anti Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! Album
Free Music Review: Ignore that Grating Sound--It's Just My Hype Alarm Going Off
Hit: 3 Stars
There comes a time when a great songwriter's work eventually builds a monument of such indisputable glory that fans and media alike exchange objective criticism for the kind of polite noise everyone's making about the latest from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Dig!! Lazarus Dig!!!, as if to handle their work with the remotest honesty is to befoul the names of the gods. Let me make one thing clear: Nick Cave has without any doubt attained the heights of rock `n roll divinity, but that doesn't mean he can't be pulled to the ground when he asks for it. And with Lazarus, he doesn't just ask-he begs.
The several talking songs on Lazarus (like "Night of the Lotus Eaters" or the title track) betray a presumptuousness that undercuts Cave's performances here, a combination of indifference and indulgence that suggests Nick's been reading his own clippings. Instead we get a self-congratulatory Cave luxuriating in the density of his own chiseled lines while spitting stale similes like "you came on like a punch in the heart," accidentally stumbling here and there into a vocal melody that almost approximates song. The band accompanies Cave in a drunken nausea of whiny violins and one-chord riffs that condemn most tracks to the monotone rut Cave is so clearly steeped in. At times, as on the entirely discordant "Midnight Man" or "Moonland," the band simply collapses into an unlistenable jazz of dispassion. It's all noise and no nuance this time around-the exact inversion of everything Cave fans expect of this otherwise brilliant man.
When Cave released the jam-packed double album Abattoir Blues in 2004, a mature masterpiece that integrated the blistering abandon of his Birthday Party days with the brooding balladry of Boatman's Call, he suggested that fans ought to listen to disc one first, and then resort to disc 2 only when they grew hungry for a new Nick Cave album. Well, I find myself famished after listening to Lazarus, and so you'll understand if I return now to the Abattoir to get my fill.
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