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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - The First Born Is Dead LP
$51.95
Includes download code.
Highly recommended.
Although it's not as wild and frenetic as From Her To Eternity, The Firstborn Is Dead is a more focused effort featuring better overall playing from Cave & The Bad Seeds, and stronger songwriting. Drawing particularly on the deep well of American blues and folklore for this album, rather than Goth obsessions, Cave here has an album that is a bit different, lyrically and musically, from anything else in his catalog. The production is so sparse it's agonising at times, but that's the beauty of the record; its dark, miserable simplicity.
Highly recommended.
Although it's not as wild and frenetic as From Her To Eternity, The Firstborn Is Dead is a more focused effort featuring better overall playing from Cave & The Bad Seeds, and stronger songwriting. Drawing particularly on the deep well of American blues and folklore for this album, rather than Goth obsessions, Cave here has an album that is a bit different, lyrically and musically, from anything else in his catalog. The production is so sparse it's agonising at times, but that's the beauty of the record; its dark, miserable simplicity.
