Nick Cave

Well, he's at it again, goth balladeer Nick Cave, with his taste for literature and history, for
music as text-delivery system and for settling in behind the piano like an undead John Cale
and belting out his peculiarly sentimental fantasies of terror, madness and feminine
redemption. The best of these twelve new tracks are simple, lush torch songs, such as the
title tune and the ravishing "Love Letter"; or they hearken back to Cave's dark-tr... More >