Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have announced a new album called Wild God, which will arrive on August 30th. Today, the band shared the album’s title track and lead single.
Released via Bad Seed in partnership with Play It Again Sam, Wild God will span 10 tracks, each produced by Cave and Warren Ellis. In addition to the band’s lineup — consisting of Cave, Ellis, Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Jim Sclavunos, and George Vjestica — Luis Almau and Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood made contributions to the album.
Speaking about Wild God in a new statement, Cave expressed a “hope [that] the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me.” Continuing, he explained: “It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a master plan when we make a record.
Released via Bad Seed in partnership with Play It Again Sam, Wild God will span 10 tracks, each produced by Cave and Warren Ellis. In addition to the band’s lineup — consisting of Cave, Ellis, Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Jim Sclavunos, and George Vjestica — Luis Almau and Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood made contributions to the album.
Speaking about Wild God in a new statement, Cave expressed a “hope [that] the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me.” Continuing, he explained: “It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a master plan when we make a record.
- 3/6/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Founding member of The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Serge Gainsbourg song stylist Mick Harvey with Ed Bahlman on arriving in London: “The Pop Group were held very dear by the band as a kind of guide for how things could be, if you want to be that extreme. And The Fall were very much loved.”
In the second installment of Mick Harvey’s conversation with music producer and 99 Records founder, Ed Bahlman, on Mutiny In Heaven: The Birthday Party, they discussed The Birthday Party leaving Melbourne in 1980 to live in London; the differing life experiences at that time for him, Phill Calvert, and Tracy Pew, compared to Nick Cave and Rowland S Howard; British bands - The Fall, Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen, Killing Joke, The Pop Group and Mark Stewart; Lindsay Gravina’s on-camera interviews; Richard Lowenstein and...
In the second installment of Mick Harvey’s conversation with music producer and 99 Records founder, Ed Bahlman, on Mutiny In Heaven: The Birthday Party, they discussed The Birthday Party leaving Melbourne in 1980 to live in London; the differing life experiences at that time for him, Phill Calvert, and Tracy Pew, compared to Nick Cave and Rowland S Howard; British bands - The Fall, Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen, Killing Joke, The Pop Group and Mark Stewart; Lindsay Gravina’s on-camera interviews; Richard Lowenstein and...
- 12/30/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Mick Harvey on The Boys Next Door with Tracy Pew, Phill Calvert, Rowland S Howard and Nick Cave, and the group name change before going to London: “We had some discussions and we came up with The Birthday Party.”
In the first instalment with Mick Harvey we started out discussing his appearance in Wim Wenders’ Wings Of Desire as a member of Bad Seeds and Crime and the City Solution; Wenders’ latest films, Anselm (Anselm - Das Rauschen der Zeit on Anselm Kiefer) and Perfect Days (Japan’s Oscar submission); Pj Harvey, and Mick’s take on translating and recording four albums of Serge Gainsbourg songs in English, and Jane Birkin (performing at the French Institute Alliance Française in New York).
Mick Harvey with Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on William Friedkin’s The Birthday Party film (screenplay by Harold Pinter) and the name change: “We thought, yeah, that’s good.
In the first instalment with Mick Harvey we started out discussing his appearance in Wim Wenders’ Wings Of Desire as a member of Bad Seeds and Crime and the City Solution; Wenders’ latest films, Anselm (Anselm - Das Rauschen der Zeit on Anselm Kiefer) and Perfect Days (Japan’s Oscar submission); Pj Harvey, and Mick’s take on translating and recording four albums of Serge Gainsbourg songs in English, and Jane Birkin (performing at the French Institute Alliance Française in New York).
Mick Harvey with Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on William Friedkin’s The Birthday Party film (screenplay by Harold Pinter) and the name change: “We thought, yeah, that’s good.
- 11/1/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Carnage would be a broad subject for any artist, especially anyone who has devoted an album solely to the art of the murder ballad. But this is Nick Cave, and in true Bad Seed fashion, there’s a twist: The crime scene here is spiritual rather than corporeal.
Carnage, a collaboration between Cave and Bad Seeds multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, is . On each of the record’s eight tracks, Cave attempts to make sense of his place in the world, as he sees it crumbling around him. When he thinks of love on the title track,...
Carnage, a collaboration between Cave and Bad Seeds multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, is . On each of the record’s eight tracks, Cave attempts to make sense of his place in the world, as he sees it crumbling around him. When he thinks of love on the title track,...
- 2/25/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Nick Cave and his longtime collaborator Warren Ellis surprise-released a new album, Carnage, Thursday morning. All lyrics on the album are by Cave, while the music is by both of them. With only a few exceptions, the two artists played nearly everything on the record. Physical copies of the album, on CD and vinyl, will be available on May 28th.
Cave teased the album with a letter to a fan as part of his Red Hand Files project last month. This month, he expounded on it by saying, “Carnage is...
Cave teased the album with a letter to a fan as part of his Red Hand Files project last month. This month, he expounded on it by saying, “Carnage is...
- 2/25/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released their new album “Skeleton Tree” last night, and along with it an emotional black and white video for “I Need You.”
The King of Darkness is no stranger to the emotionally intense, and the album was hailed by The Guardian as “a masterpiece of love and devastation.” The video comes from the 3D film “One More Time With Feeling,” from director Andrew Dominik (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”).
Read More: Nick Cave Faces Tragedy In Illuminating, Intimate ‘One More Time With Feeling’ – Venice Film Festival Review
The film was the first opportunity to hear “Skeleton Tree,” which was initially intended as a performance-based portrait of the album. The result is an interwoven collection of interviews, improvised insights and footage that explores the tragic inspiration for the work. Enjoy the visceral cut from the film below.
Read More: Nick Cave...
The King of Darkness is no stranger to the emotionally intense, and the album was hailed by The Guardian as “a masterpiece of love and devastation.” The video comes from the 3D film “One More Time With Feeling,” from director Andrew Dominik (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”).
Read More: Nick Cave Faces Tragedy In Illuminating, Intimate ‘One More Time With Feeling’ – Venice Film Festival Review
The film was the first opportunity to hear “Skeleton Tree,” which was initially intended as a performance-based portrait of the album. The result is an interwoven collection of interviews, improvised insights and footage that explores the tragic inspiration for the work. Enjoy the visceral cut from the film below.
Read More: Nick Cave...
- 9/9/2016
- by Annakeara Stinson
- Indiewire
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have unveiled a previously-unreleased song 'Give Us A Kiss'.
The track features in upcoming film 20,000 Days on Earth.
It is released as a digital single today (September 4), backed with 'Jubilee Street' (Live from The Sydney Opera House). A limited edition 10" vinyl follows on November 10.
"'Jubilee Street' forced its way into our film," said directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.
"We'd planned to end with 'Push The Sky Away' and its pertinent lyrics about rock 'n' roll getting you right down to your soul; but after the band played 'Jubilee Street' at Sydney Opera House, we didn't stand a chance.
"Only four songs in and there was Nick, transforming in front of us. Our lives haven't been the same since."
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos, Conway Savage, Barry Adamson and George Vjestica.
Their last album...
The track features in upcoming film 20,000 Days on Earth.
It is released as a digital single today (September 4), backed with 'Jubilee Street' (Live from The Sydney Opera House). A limited edition 10" vinyl follows on November 10.
"'Jubilee Street' forced its way into our film," said directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.
"We'd planned to end with 'Push The Sky Away' and its pertinent lyrics about rock 'n' roll getting you right down to your soul; but after the band played 'Jubilee Street' at Sydney Opera House, we didn't stand a chance.
"Only four songs in and there was Nick, transforming in front of us. Our lives haven't been the same since."
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos, Conway Savage, Barry Adamson and George Vjestica.
Their last album...
- 9/4/2014
- Digital Spy
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are getting ready to bow their first album in five years when "Push the Sky Away" drops on Feb. 19. In between, Cave has been busy in Grinderman. In fact, two-thirds of the ensemble for "Sky" have been busy with the same thing. Multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn Casey and percussionist Jim Sclavunos, in addition to Cave, made up Grinderman in its last incarnation in 2011; Bad Seeds alumni Thomas Wydler (drums) and Conway Savage (vocals) return as well. Mick Harvey is still M.I.A. since he and Cave had a parting of ways after more...
- 12/1/2012
- Hitfix
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