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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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Australian rock group led by singer-songwriter Nick Cave, formed in 1983; known for dark, literary songwriting that spans blues, post-punk, gospel and experimental sounds.

Longtime collaborators mentioned in the reviews include Warren Ellis, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Martyn Casey and Thomas Wydler. Recurring themes in reviews: grief and mourning (notably on Skeleton Tree and Ghosteen), murder ballads, religious imagery, southern-gothic blues, and periods of reinvention from noisy early records to more minimal recent works.

DeBaser's reviews treat Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds as a long-running, evolving project: early blues-inflected horror and violence, later lapses into tenderness and religious imagery, and recent works focused on grief and minimalism. Reviewers praise songwriting, voice and reinventions across decades.

For:Fans of dark, literary rock; post-punk and blues listeners; readers of in-depth album criticism.

 The firstborn is dead... let the sky break, spew out its tears and dress in mourning this red earth.

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 I don't believe in an interventionist God but if I did I would ask Him to watch over you

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 Nick Cave was probably (surely) the greatest rock star of the last thirty years.

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