What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS "skeleton key" cd, 2016

their sixteenth of seventeen...
Eureka!
yup, just had one of those eureka moments where everything clicks in to place!.
what a masterful album!
album was recorded just two weeks after his son died accidently in a cliff fall...
music is very sparse, lyrics are full of emotive imagery (though not directly about his son), which certainly took Cave to a deeper, darker more sombre place than on previous albums.
like Lennon's "plastic ono band" this hard to listen to becuase it is so raw, cuts to the bone type feel, and like Lennon, Cave has harnessed all the raw pent up anguish to deliver something truly brilliant IMO.
would almost certainly rate in my top 5 albums of his career for me.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

the single:






You fell from the sky
Crash landed in a field
Near the river Adur
Flowers spring from the ground
Lambs burst from the wombs of their mothers
In a hole beneath the bridge
You convalesced, you fashioned masks of twigs and clay
You cried beneath the dripping trees
Ghost song lodged in the throat of a mermaid

With my voice
I am calling you

You're a young man waking
Covered in blood that is not yours
You're a woman in a yellow dress
Surrounded by a charm of hummingbirds
You're a young girl full of forbidden energy
Flickering in the gloom
You're a drug addict lying on your back
In a Tijuana hotel room

With my voice
I am calling you
With my voice
I am calling you

You're an African doctor harvesting tear ducts
You believe in God, but you get no special dispensation for this belief now
You're an old man sitting by the fire, you're the mist rolling off the sea
You're a distant memory in the mind of your creator, don't you see?

With my voice
I am calling you
With my voice
I am calling you

Let us sit together until the moment comes

With my voice
I am calling you

Let us sit together in the dark until the moment comes