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Produced by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Nick Launay who worked with the band on their last album Abattoir Blues/ Lyre of Orpheus, the new album was recorded over the summer at State of the Ark Studios in Richmond and mixed by Nick Launay at British Grove in Chiswick.
DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! features artwork by British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will announce single and tour news soon, and rest assured you will be the first to hear about it.
The first single from the album DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!!- and the album�s title track – DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! – is released on February 18th 2008. It will be available as a limited edition 7�, CD and download. The B-side features another new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds song Accidents Will Happen.
"Ever since I can remember hearing the Lazarus story, when I was a kid, you know, back in church, I was disturbed and worried by it. Traumatized, actually. We are all, of course, in awe of the greatest of Christ’s miracles – raising a man from the dead – but I couldn’t help but wonder how Lazarus felt about it. As a child it gave me the creeps, to be honest. I’ve taken Lazarus and stuck him in New York City, in order to give the song, a hip, contemporary feel. I was also thinking about Harry Houdini who spent a lot of his life trying to debunk the spiritualists who were cashing in on the bereaved. He believed there was nothing going on beyond the grave. He was the second greatest escapologist, Harry was, Lazarus, of course, being the greatest. I wanted to create a kind of vehicle, a medium, for Houdini to speak to us if he so desires, you know, from beyond the grave. Sometimes, late at night, if you listen to the song hard enough, you can hear his voice and the sad clanking of his chains. "I don’t know what it is but there is definitely something going on upstairs", he seems to be saying. It is, most of all, an elegy to the New York City of the 70’s." – Nick Cave
Oh man, I think I just shat myself.
Have you heard the Grinderman album? I need to grab that next time I’m at the music shoppe. Should have today.
Grinderman while very different from the Bad Seeds stuff is seriously top notch!. Many people misread it as an old geezar wishing he was young again but if you listen to the lyrics that’s not really the point of the album. Also, according to Cave "Dig, Lazuras, dig" sounds more like a Grinderman album than a Bad Seeds album. Also, he says it has an upbeat tone throughout.
Sounds great but I loved Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus simply because you get to hear his darker and softer side depending on which side of the album you listen to.
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As you two know, I LOVE Grinderman, and generally The Bad Seeds too of course. 😀 I have a really great feeling now for their new album.