Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
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Free Music Review: The Reviewers Here Are On Heroin!
Hit: 3 Stars
You know, praising Nick Cave regardless of whether his tunes deserve it just means you are fawning, not being objective or critical. Five stars, are you kidding me?! I give it half that. I agree with the last reviewer that this is a major disappointment. I've listened to it quite a bit, so I've given it enough time to comment. Half this album consists of throwaway tunes and are annoyingly repetitive (i.e., title track and Call Upon The Author), for the devoted only. The other half are more in line with the last few albums (which means they're worthy of repeat listening). But this is probably the weakest Nick Cave album in a long time. Murder Ballads is even better than this. The standout tunes for me are:
- Today's Lesson
- Night of the Lotus Eaters
- Hold Onto Yourself
- Jesus of the Moon
- Midnight Man
Free Music Review: Disconnect
Hit: 2 Stars
This is the first Nick Cave outing that hasn't moved me at all. Not one single song after several listens brought out any emotion in me other than disappointment. This feels like a collection of the very bottom of the barrel B-sides thrown together for the sake of fulfilling the Mute records contract. I think he had a hard time shifting back to form from Grinderman. I know I seem to be going against the grain here but I just love those slow and building Cave songs that just move your soul and there is absolutely none of that on this album. Hold On To Yourself is the only song I rated high enough for my itunes to play anymore and that's mainly since it's not a song with a bunch of noise in it. This makes me so sad... 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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Free Music Review: bloody hell! damn fine album!
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm not writing much on this album.
Its fantastic, hilarious, brutal and thats it..
go listen.
Free Music Review: Picking up where Grinderman left off...
Hit: 5 Stars
There are a few songwriters who have taken the English language and crafted it into something entirely different. A brief list of some of my favorite songwriters comes to mind: Kris Kristofferson, Tom Waits, Hank Williams, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, and perhaps Sting (somebody, somewhere, is arguing these last two; too bad, this is MY review, and I stand by it). This list isn't anywhere near complete, of course, but it serves to give you an example of the category we should file Nick Cave into. If, of course, you can put him in one simple category (I don't recommend wasting your time trying to do this).
With Nick Cave, of course, it isn't just about the lyrics. A Nick Cave record is an aural experience--a delight the which you've only dreamed of. This is thanks in large part to the rest of the Bad Seeds, expert musicians who specialize in f***ing things up (in a good way). Take, for instance, the title track here, with Cave bellowing "I want you to dig!" over pounding electric guitars. Or the metafictional songwriting forray "We Call Upon the Author," with the enduring chant: "Prolix, prolix, nothing a pair of scissors can't fix!" Or the groove of the Odyssean epic "More News from Nowhere." Or the gentle, romantic sway of "Jesus of the Moon."
Basically, DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! picks up where the Grinderman project left off, this time with ALL of the Bad Seeds contributing. It's nice to see Cave rocking the f*** out again (am I cursing too much?). There really isn't much of a title for music like this; I think "rock" comes closest to it. If you aren't familiar with Nick Cave: I'm not sure how you wound up here...but buy the record and see what you've been missing. If you're a longtime fan, or a recent one, then I'm not sure why you're actually reading this, but you, too, should buy the record. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are one of the most interesting things the music world has to offer us nowadays; in this world of fake celebrities and Pro-Tools and reality-show singers, it's nice to see a guy who just doesn't give a rat's petoot about doing anything other than making music HIS way. Here's to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, for helping to keep this thing we call art honest and sincere.