Nick Cave and The Unhealthy Seeds’ newest album, Wild God, is out August 30.
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Nick Cave and The Unhealthy Seeds’ newest album, Wild God, is out August 30.
Megan Cullen/Courtesy of the artist
On August 30, the Australian-born rock titan Nick Cave will launch Wild God, a brand new album together with his band The Unhealthy Seeds. It is a excessive level in Cave’s profession, and NPR Music’s Ann Powers spoke with him concerning the struggles — private, musical and non secular — he confronted on the highway to creating the album.
Wild God is stuffed with songs about encounters with the divine, which doesn’t all the time take a benevolent kind. And it follows a decade during which Cave, having publicly confronted tragedy in his personal life, has advanced from post-punk’s louchest fallen angel right into a revered determine amongst his viewers in a brand new manner: a dignified seeker whose braveness and knowledge resounds past musical boundaries because of recommendation he has shared in interviews, writing tasks and public appearances. Maybe it is not stunning that so lots of the songs reckon with the second of revelation or transformation, or the demand for conversion from a
As for the state of his personal spiritual conviction, Cave says that the battle is the purpose: “I’d say I am within the strategy of conversion,” he tells Powers. Wherever he’s on that highway, he is discovered one thing ecstatic to share.
