Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God ALBUM REVIEW

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Nick's streak of very solid albums continues.

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Team: Jeremy - Lead Edits / Anthony - Final Cuts / Austen - Proofing, Posting
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FAV TRACKS: SONG OF THE LAKE, FINAL RESCUE ATTEMPT, CONVERSION, LONG DARK NIGHT, O WOW O WOW

LEAST FAV TRACK: CINNAMON HORSES

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - WILD GOD / 2024 / PIAS / CHAMBER ROCK, SINGER-SONGWRITER, GOSPEL, NEO-PSYCH

7/10

Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?

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Denzel Curry And Nick Cave The kings of consistency

ringer

Anthony. Getting Nick Cave on theneedledrop for an interview would be amazing. Is it in the realm of possibility?

brians.

This one was like a 9 to me. It's like Cave ode to the fragility of existence; despite everything wrong in the world, we still have beauty: in music, in words. And that translate so good in the singing and the lyrics.

rubyo

I remember in an interview Nick himself said he isnt any more of a religious person nowadays than he was in the past. The struggle to find god or spirituality on this album though feels very human to me. It isnt out of genuine enlightenment - but striving for it!

Kaulquappen

When I was younger and a lot more foolish, I never understood the appeal of Nick Cave. The naivety of youth as it were. Yet as I got older and lost some really good people I loved fiercely, there's something necessary about the undeniable grief and longing that he articulates through his music. Whether searching spiritualism or subtle fatalism, Cave is actively searching for purpose and respite when all purpose and respite has been largely removed from him through the shittiest form of happenstance. This is not the end, contextually or artistically speaking.

UncleAnaesthesia

honestly... for me it's like a 9 or even a 10 and arguably my album of the year

johnnybraxton

The way you discuss the spiritual and/or religious aspects of this record are quite condescending and disappointing. This record is far from being any kind of narrow "I found Jesus" moment. If it is preachy at all, the sermon is that loss is not only a precondition for despair but also for joy. This is not wed to any assumption that someone must accept pre-determined religious dogma. There is no zero-sum opposition between faith and doubt, heaven and hell. Nick has reflected on this in public extensively (like in his recent book, or in recent interviews), and has pushed back against these kinds of narratives. There's a lot more beneath the surface references to religious imagery in these songs, as is the case with Nick's previous reliance on religious themes.

micahenns-dyck

This is what happens when Fantano doesn’t do any research on an album.
Nick Cave wasn’t writing about himself.
He did an hour long podcast on Australian media where he spoke about the thematic approach to this album.
It was a story of a “God” who was walking through life and trying to find his way home. Documenting the paths he had to take to find his way back to heaven after he had lost his way on the world he had evidently lost control of.
This is not an introspective album.
This is not like no more shall we part.
It’s a story of a God who lost control of what he created and was seeking redemption.
When you listen to it from that narrative you’ll find an immersive story that follows the quest of this wayward God character and his return to home.

unkonshustudio

This record is huge, like, it stands out, literally, among my other records.

As a parent, Ghosteen just killed me. It's an exploration of the torment caused by such an event happening (which is a terrifying
prospect), and you're just sucked into a weepy empathy with the man. It will always be a 10 for that. Was it really mixed that bad? I never noticed.

topperthehorse

In his book from last year, nick talks at great length about becoming more religious as a way of coping with the loss of his sons. its a fantastic read. Side note: there is this poem he reads from a woman who writes to him via the red hand files that had me in tears.

JJJJMan

Wild God and Frogs not being on the faves is crazy. Wild God is song of the year.

bartholomeusjgunspy

On your point about the religious aspects being performative, or as if you feel you're being sold something, i definitely get the sense that this feeling of "selling" is something nick is imposing upon himself.

A lot of the album still being about his healing from the loss of his two children, it's almost as if to me he wants to convince himself there is a god, because it would mean he wil eventually see them again. Or at the very least they aren't dissipated into nothingness, that their essense and souls still exist somewhere out there.

Thus, if there be none, nevermind, nevermind.

ColombianThunder

Anthony, you can’t just subtract 3 points because the cover didn’t feature any “goth mommy’s”.

melatoninfiend

As someone who has been through loss of a close loved one at such a young age, Nick attempting to seek closure from spirituality or religion, even if in some ways it seems forced or seems somewhat driven by a fear or mortality or facing death or a fear of not seeing a lost loved one in a possible afterlife ever again, is something that I feel only people who have been through a loss as profound and as close as Nick have could understand

TechnoAdamGuy