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The Boatman’s Call

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These are your actual songs of faith and devotion, and by Cave’s own admission his most personal album to date. Amid the ashes of a world unable to exorcise its demons, Nick actually finds love; a strange, twisted, doomed love, perhaps--but love nevertheless. The album is entirely piano-based, alternately somber and romantic in mood, making it a marked departure from the bulk of the band's post-punk catalogue up to that point. For my part, it was "No More Shall We Part" which introduced to me to the dark delightful work of Mr. Some songs are thought to be directed at either the mother of Cave's oldest son Luke, Viviane Carneiro (in "Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?

Its sincerity feels all the more poignant following the band’s latest full-length, 2016’s Skeleton Tree, written and recorded in the wake of the tragic and sudden death of Cave’s teenage son Arthur.People Ain't No Good" is an especial work of genius - without meaning to give too much away, the last verse in particular is both devastating and (almost) funny in its bleakness. Stripped down and grown up--though still ghoulish and grave--Cave the storyteller has turned into something of a vampire Bruce Springsteen. Classic Album Sundays tells the stories behind the albums that have shaped our culture and in some cases, our lives. As the 1980s drew to a close Cave was deeply addicted to heroin and writing some of his darkest songs yet.

After a career spent tearing down the world with horror and disgust, Nick Cave finally sounds ready to start rebuilding from scratch.Celebrated as the band’s most starkly moving work, key tracks include the single “Into My Arms” and “People Ain’t No Good”, featured in the soundtrack to Shrek 2. Into My Arms" is of course a classic and a song I was aware of (and loved) before listening to the whole album. Behind the scenes, several issues had aligned in Cave’s life; a traumatic break-up, a second stint in rehab for a still persistent heroin addiction, and, most famously, a passionate but swiftly extinguished love-affair.

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