Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away

by Nenad Georgievski
July 13, 2013

Strangely beautiful, lush and stately, the Bad Seeds' Push the Sky Away is an absolute wonder of a record. It is bold, emotionally charged, beautiful, baffling and gorgeously intimate. After the fired-up extravaganza in the form of the Grinderman juggernaut, surprisingly there comes a record that is totally devoid of that volcanic noise and menace that eventually influenced another Bad Seeds record, released between the two Grinderman records, the magnificent and raucous Dig Lazarus Dig (Mute, 2008). But three records ...