Hardback book bound in linen with 32 stitched-in pages, containing beautifully reproduced hand typed lyrics & band imagery. Includes album CD plus DVD with specially created visuals by artists Iain Forysth & Jane Pollard. At the heart of Push the Sky Away is a naturalism and warmth that makes it the most subtly beautiful of all the Bad Seeds albums. The contemporary settings of myths, and the cultural references that have time-stamped Nick's songs of the twenty-first century mist lightly through details drawn from the life he observed around his seaside home, through the tall windows on the album's mysterious and ambiguous cover.
The songs on this album took form in a modest notebook with shellac covers over the course of almost a year. The notebook is a treasured analogue artifact but the internet is equally important to Nick: Googling curiosities, being entranced by exotic Wikipedia entries "whether they're true or not".
These songs convey how on the internet prof! oundly significant events, momentary fads and mystically-tinged absurdities sit side-by-side and question how we might recognise and assign weight to what's genuinely important. The album has a clarity and sweet strangeness that's built upon the refusal to accept limitations, whether they be the traditional uses and sounds of musical instruments, lyric styles, or diminished spiritual horizons. It's not always apparent what instruments the band is playing: they may be traditional musical instruments but other sounds are clearly generated by objects unrelated to musical instruments.
What's being created is a collective musical language that's rich and complex. "Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren's loops are its tiny, trembling heart-beat." - Nick Cave.
Good news from Sheffield! IN THE NURSERY's new album THE CALLING is available for pre-sale NOW direct from the ITN website.
Orders will be shipped from 25.01.13
It's a thematic soundtrack, inspired by and, to accompany the Hunter series of books by international bestseller Simon Beckett.
The soundtrack will be a mixture of new music, binaural field recordings, sound design and include readings by the author.
Another version of this project will be Verwesung, a special German edition of Calling of the Grave, featuring ITN's soundtrack CD.
All tracks are recorded live during the concert at Karen/Göteborg 15 March 1991.
Released as a part of a bootleg cd, now for the first time officially available on the vinyl only label MINIMAL MAXIMAL,
Contains the complete transmission as broadcasted on Swedisch radio combined with 3 extra tracks from the same concert.
In a collectors limited edition of 520 hand-numbered copies, 180 gram vinyl, no re-press.
The Shade have recently self-released our 4-track EP digitally to iTunes/Amazon/Bandcamp etc.
and they are working on their debut album.
They describe themselves as darkwave/synthpop/nu wave from Milan and they're certainly worth a listen.
Imagine Films informs us that Rebelle (aka War Witch) is now shown at the cinemas.
This new film from Kim Nguyen has already gathered great reviews and (even if it is a bit shocking) a must see.
The movie has an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film.
Synopsis: Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona a 14-year-old girl tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.
