Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
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Free Music Review: Dig Lazarus Dig
Hit: 4 Stars
At first listen, I was not certain I would care for this album; although I am a dedicated Cave fan. After one or two times playing it, I really liked Midnight Man and More News from Nowhere. I am finding I like the whole album better and better the more I listen to it, reminding me that Cave's work grows on you. I think Dig Lazarus Dig is a good choice for Cave's fans. The man is amazing and just gets better as time passes. Free Music Review: A darkly funny album which takes the usual Nick Cave skill in an unusual direction.
Hit: 4 Stars
Evidently reinvigorated by his mid-life-crisis stint in punk-rock incarnation Grinderman, Nick Cave returns with Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! - a thrilling, sprawling album.
Its themes of sex, death and religion, and its cast of strange shadowy creatures occupying a rich and looming musical landscape are familiar, but there is definitely a new energy at play.
The magnificent "Jesus of the Moon" - one of several tracks where Cave trades his preacher-man delivery for that of a storyteller - is among the finest moments of his career, and there's much more to rave about besides. Now 50 and no longer the menacing figure he was during the decades he maintained a heroin habit, Nick Cave has become a prodigious artist(responsible for soundtracks, screenplays and essays as well as his solo material) who ranks alongside the likes of Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.
The backdrops to these narratives and speculations range from churning rock'n'roll vamps, barrages of distorted guitar noise and hypnotic chants, to the shimmering mandolin and viola, caressed with tender breaths of flute, that multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis conjures up for the beautiful "Jesus of the Moon".
There's more than enough on here - the wonderfully morbid lyrics, the almost animal guitar sounds and, of course, that voice - to savour.
"Jesus of the Moon" has some of the Bad Seeds signature sound.
The track would fit in better on "The Good Son" than it does surrounded by rock 'n' roll tunes like the title song.
"Night of the Lotus Eaters" has a distinctive Grinderman feel and "More News From Nowhere" more obviously presents the band's earlier musical characteristics.
"Dig" is a confident album by musicians who are not simply singing the songs they know will sell and it is an interesting, exciting and often irreverent offering.
My favourute tracks are : "Jesus of the Moon", "We Call Upon the Author", "More News From Nowhere", "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!", and "Today's Lesson".
Free Music Review: It's A Shame
Hit: 2 Stars
I have been a fan of Nick Cave's music for over 20 years. So far, in my opinion, this is his only "dud". Nothing is really stinkeroo about it, it's just bland and boring and contains similar material already covered on previous albums. I hope he hops back up on that black steed and rides again--but for now, he and his mates are just slogging through the dung. Free Music Review: Hard Driving Rock with Dirty Blues Mixed In
Hit: 5 Stars
Nick Cave has been an outstanding musician for decades. Although he has written amazing songs throughout the years, he has not yet achieved great success (his albums on the top 10). Even though what I know of him, he'd probably prefer it that way, to not be in the mainstream of the rock world (you know being classified as commercial). This release of Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! is considerably one of his best. It's released after he took time off to work with his side project Grinderman last year then returned and recorded this album.
Whatever he did, like getting out other frustrations with Grinderman, worked because this album contains fierce hard driving rock tunes with dirty blues mixed in. He has a song "Jesus Of The Moon" that is a more mellow piano style track and the title track that hits you with it's pounding drums and then there's "Moonland" that has a more funk sorta vibe to it. Overall this is a great album with strong interesting songs.
Free Music Review: Dynamite Gift
Hit: 5 Stars
I sent this as a gift and the recipient said it was a dynamite CD.