Nick Cave Just Casually Revealed That His New Album Is Out Next Week
When you’re Nick Cave, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
After all, the man is one of the mainstays of the international music scene, courting great reviews and consistently good sales. While other bands have fizzled out on a pool of their own misspent hype, Cave has spent decades crafting his own sound and his own distinct niche in the process. There’s no-one like him, so he is, in a word, irreplaceable.
Anyway, part of that unique appeal also means a unique, no shits-given approach to album roll-outs. While other bands spend months teasing new projects with singles and sly social media winks, Nick Cave signs into his blog, gets a random question from a punter as to when his new album will be out, and answers it just like that, detailing his new project in full on the internet, for all to see.
Yep, last night, responding to a query on The Red Hand Files, the corner of the internet Cave has marked out to interact with his fans, the singer-songwriter revealed his new record is coming next week. It’s called Ghosteen. It’s a double album, with the first side being a conventional series of normally-sized songs, and the second being two very long tracks, linked by a spoken word poem. And it’s got one of the most astonishing covers of Cave’s entire career.
— Warren Ellis (@warrenellis13) September 23, 2019
Unfortunately, Cave didn’t go so far as to reveal the sound of the new record. That’s anybody’s guess: who knows whether it’ll emulate the broody, electro-heavy tunes of his last album, Skeleton Tree, or whether it will call back to the stately, handsome sounds of Push The Sky Away.
Either way, this is a significant cause for celebration. There’s only one Nick Cave, after all; anything he drops is as precious and rare as gold.
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