Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen 2xLP Vinyl Record

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen 2xLP Vinyl Record

Ghosteen is the seventeenth studio album by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, first released in November 2019 on Bad Seed Ltd. Ghosteen was met with widespread critical acclaim. It received several perfect scores and is the highest-rated album of 2019, as well as the second-highest-rated album of the 2010s on Metacritic. The album placed in the top 10 album charts in several countries and was included in several publications’ year-end and decade-end lists of best albums.

Produced by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Ghosteen was written in the aftermath of the death of Cave’s son Arthur in 2015. Cave’s lyrics, which continue his deviation from his usual narrative-based writing, explore themes of loss, death and existentialism, as well as empathy, faith and optimism. Like Skeleton Tree, the album features extensive use of synthesizers, loops and ambient elements, particularly the minimal use of drums and percussion.

But while hope was in short supply on Skeleton Tree, where the songs were so sad it was almost like a dare to listen to it, a unique sort of optimism pierces through the grief from time to time on Ghosteen. It’s in the chords that Cave and the Bad Seeds play (especially the chorus of “Waiting for You”) and it’s in the words of songs like “Galleon Ship” in which sings, “For we are not alone it seems/[there are] so many riders in the sky” over glistening synths. “Ghosteen,” which opens the parents’ part of the record, begins with the words, “The world is beautiful.” And there’s also a certain peace in hearing Cave sing “Everybody’s losing someone,” in “Hollywood,” even if it just means he’s coming to terms with his own grief. If anything, the real concept behind Ghosteen is that Nick Cave is not broken. He has merely changed. He may feel shattered, but he is still writing and finding meaning in his music. 

 

TRACKLISTING

Side A:

1. Spinning Song
2. Bright Horses
3. Waiting For You
4. Night Raid

Side B:

1. Sun Forest
   
2. Galleon Ship
3. Ghosteen Speaks
4. Leviathan

Side C:

1. Ghosteen
2. Fireflies

Side D:

1. Hollywood

 

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Manufacturer Bad Seed Ltd. Brand Nick Cave Pennies 110 Music Genre Alternative / Indie, Rock Dimensions 12″ Preorder No