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| Artist: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Label: Mute
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 48
Format: Extra Tracks
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5099951830427
ASIN: B000ZN258M
Release Date: March 3, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW - Sealed IMPORT!! -
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| » | Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! | | » | Today's Lesson | | » | Moonland | | » | Night Of The Lotus Eaters | | » | Albert Goes West | | » | We Call Upon The Author | | » | Hold On To Yourself | | » | Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl) | | » | Jesus Of The Moon | | » | Midnight Man | | » | More News From Nowhere |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! finds Nick Cave back at the helm of his long-term band The Bad Seeds after some impressive soundtrack work--2005's The Assassination of Jesse James--and a busman's holiday in the raw, rocking Grinderman. As the title suggests, Lazarus finds Cave returning to familiar themes of God and redemption, although some of the raw poise and wild-eyed humour that resurfaced in Grinderman remains: take the opening title track, which retells the Biblical story of the resurrection of Lazarus as transposed onto the sleazy, poverty-stricken backdrop of modern-day New York City. Musically, the likes of "Moonland" and "Night of the Lotus Eaters" have a swampy feel, all skittering drums, simmering bass and smoky organ riffs; elsewhere, there are rockers that tie on dissonant guitars without losing their dissonant touch ("Lie Down Here"). Probably the album highlight comes with "We Call Upon the Author", a sprawling, "Sister Ray"-like chugger that shows off Cave's skill for magnificent, sung-shouted narratives: "Now mixamatoid kids roam the streets, we've shunned them from the greasy grind/The poor little things, they look so sad and old as they mount us from behind". --Louis Pattison
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 Believe the hype May 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For a band that has been around in one guise or another for over 25 years to produce a 14th studio album of this quality is nothing short of astounding. This is an album you can inhabit. Buy it and move in and you will find it a space of beauty, troubling images, humour, poetry and simply amazing songs.
Tunes which are catchy at the first listen bring you back for more. Then, the wonder sets in. Each song is not simply lovingly crafted but a shining jewel of perfection and each one different, offering something new. Usually, the scourge of the 'skip track' button on your HiFi leads to a truncated album of the 2 or 3 songs you actually like. Here, I only use the 'skip back' button, to listen to the track again and again. It is so rare to listen to an album all the way through, rarer still to listen over an over, without any tiredness creeping in.
This is destined to be the best album of the year and may even make it into the top 10 albums of all time. It is that good. The only thing that surpassed this album was seeing the great man and band live last week, knocking out these songs and wonders from the back catalogue. Unbelievable.
Oh and by the way, I'd never even played a Nick Cave album until a month ago, so I'm not a dyed in the wool fanatic.....
 Fantastic!!! Nick Cave!!! Album!!! (8/10) April 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nick Cave's fourteenth album finds him trading in the gothic romanticism of his previous work for a swampy, sleazy garage-rock-influenced sound. Taking some of its cues from Cave's recent 'Grinderman' side project and some of the wild border country atmospherics of his soundtrack work with Bad Seed Warren Ellis, Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! is markedly more upbeat but no more compromising for that. Murky and apocalyptic, the album features extended semi-spoken rants from Cave over spooked, often complex arrangements of angular guitars, organs, rattly percussion and ominous basslines.
There's something of Tom Waits or even Tricky about some of the ambience and arrangements, the Bad Seeds pulling out all the stops to create cinematic landscapes to Cave's own tales of brawlers, bawlers and bastards (to quote Waits). Cave is a singular talent seemingly liberated by some of his recent tangents, but the Seeds almost steal the show here, each track a little movie reel in itself. Those looking for the classic Cave ballad might be put off by Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!'s rawness of mood and mildly pornographic lyrics, but no-one can complain with songs as strong as 'Jesus Of The Moon' or 'Midnight Man'. It's not supposed to be like this, rock stars (or whatever you call someone like Nick Cave) aren't meant to hit career highs in their fifties, making some of their most innovative and evocative music fourteen albums in.
How does he do it? April 3, 2008
After so many albums I completely fail to understand how on Earth do Nick and his Bad Seeds continue to produce such wonderful music, almost on a yearly basis.
Maybe one reason is Cave's astonishing level of energy and emotive power, that appears to grow stronger as time goes past. Whether storytelling in a semi-autobiographical fashion (More News From Nowhere) or the delightful toying with religious themes (Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!) Cave is constantly inventive with lyrics that reward close listening, often with gloriously dark humour (More News From Nowhere particularly on this album).
Of course, one of the things Cave does best is the shambling, rolling tracks that sexily dash, drag, pull and push you along for minutes at a time. We Call Upon The Author fulfils that brief nicely, a sure classic along with the eponymous title track.
Oh, and if Cave's love songs do it for you, he's thrown them into the mix too.
So, no re-invention of Cave, but a continuation of the rich form that started somewhere around The Good Son and has so far not missed a beat yet.
Such a mystery then, that one great album after another and much exposure in the music press, and still the vast majority of the public have not heard of Nick Cave. This album won't change that, so we'll have to treasure him for ourselves.
The Bad Seeds continue to germinate spectacular fruit March 16, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are incapable of making a poor album .Dig Lazarus Dig , their 14th , doesn't break their hot trot either . Even so it's the album most in thrall to another facet of Nick Cave's muse. The Grinderman side project has infused this album with a scouring malevolence and deep and dirty ambience. It throbs with subterranean deep bass lines, brutal slashes of guitar and stick on bones percussion. The up-tempo songs have the acerbic impact of a rusty shiv while the slower numbers crawl with serpentine grace allowing Cave more space to exhort his usual bevy of words about exotic and fertile characters .
Dig Lazarus Dig , as well as being populated with Caves usual colourful array of characters is possibly his most comic album to date .Larry off the brilliant churning riff title track is some kind of celebrity flailing round American cities . "Mr Sandman The Inseminator" enters the dreams of "Little Janie" to pulsating blues bass and shivery mandocaster on "Today's Lesson". "Midnight Man" features ...well the Midnight Man to Mick Harvey's relentless equilibrating organ.
Pitter pattering conga , quivering cuica and Martyn P Casey's thumping bass usher the first person "MoonLand" while "Night Of The Lotus Eaters" has the most sepulchral bass on a Nick Cave album since "From Her To Eternity ". "Albert Goes West" goes all Jesus And Mary Chain and features man who "Had a psychotic episode on dude ranch that involved a bottle of ammonia " . The "sha la-lal la,s" at the end are great. "We Call Upon The Author" is an audacious rant against god interweaving in between funked bass, viola, poking guitars /keyboards and where Cave " feels like a vacuum cleaner!!! A complete sucker". "Hold Onto Yourself" is a more hushed affair with horror movie atmospherics and plangent organ.. "Lie Down Here (& Be My Girl)" is an exhortation to some femme fatale whose leery guitar matches Caves intentions in a tale where "We've been scribbled in the margins of a story that is patently absurd".
"Jesus Of The Moon" is a lithe undulating ballad with viola and Warren Ellis's distinctive flute. More news From Nowhere" is nigh on eight minutes of bleakly comic observations where "Here comes Alina with two black eyes/ she's given her self a transfusion / she's filled herself with panda blood to avoid all the confusion ". A repetitive guitar hook and more funk edged bass propel Cave along his way.
Dig Lazarus Dig will never be my favourite Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds album. I prefer the eclectic "Henrys Dream " , the awesome "Boatmans Call " confessional or the classy lugubrious strings of "The Good Son" but this is still another terrific album. Those who prefer the wracked hollow eyed blues of his first album - before he went all cabaret (as they see it) may actually find this a return to form. I can think of very few artists around today who continue to hold my interest 14 albums in (Brian Eno , The Blue Nile , Scott Walker -though the last two are so slow to produce material I fear they will never reach fourteen -)but this band do . And they never ever disappoint .
seeds just coming to the boil. March 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a great album, being a cave fan some of his albums have been patchy over the last decade, grinderman notwithstanding when cave is reunited with the seeds he shines, namely in the brilliiant WE CALL UPON THE AUTHOR with its laconic doop doop chorus backing vocal, the flagship for me though is the closer more news from nowhere it trundles along like a steam train which you could easily envisage cave and co playing on its imbued with a slightly ironic spirit, this album reminds me in parts of murder ballads and nocturama the latter which i would recommend to my fellow listener who asked aboutother seeds material,if you like D L D you'll love nocturama if only for the volatile preaching tome babe i'm on fire which just clocks in at over 15 mins but features some of caves most vitriolic rhyming.
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