Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 'Wild God' Review
spent the last six years in conversation. Through his Red Hand Files Website and his touring Q&A series, the 66-year-old punk-rock icon has waxed poetic with his fans about grief, aging, and forgiveness. And after dropping the Bad Seeds’ last record, the devastating, in 2019, it seems he’s ready to talk about something that’s sadly rare in these times: joy. Cave plays preacher, congregation, and god over the course of a suite of songs that are in equal measure elegiac and ecstatic.
As such, there’s a kind of joyful madcap nature to these 10 tracks, careening from more terrestrial visions of nature to the Mount Olympus-sized title track “Wild God,” a song that sounds like something the titular deity would bellow somewhere wild and weird like the tectonic plates of Iceland. Studded among the washes of choruses and strings and keys, standouts like the single “Frogs” thrum with life as Cave entreats an amphibian to “hop inside my coat” “in the Sunday rain.
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Of course, not every moment can be transcendent — if you cringe at the word “panties” you probably won’t care for the love song “O Wow O Wow ” — but there’s a sense of abandon and play toChanning Tatum Says Gambit Accent Was Supposed to Be 'Unintelligible' at Times and He Was 'Too Scared to Ask' Marvel for the Costume to Bring HomeAll About RFK Jr.
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