Nick Cave and The Dangerous Seeds’ newest album, Wild God, is out August 30.
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Nick Cave and The Dangerous 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 Dangerous 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 street to creating the album.
Wild God is full of songs about encounters with the divine, which doesn’t at all times take a benevolent type. And it follows a decade by 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 method: a dignified seeker whose braveness and knowledge resounds past musical boundaries due to recommendation he has shared in interviews, writing initiatives and public appearances. Maybe it is not shocking 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 non secular conviction, Cave says that the battle is the purpose: “I might say I am within the strategy of conversion,” he tells Powers. Wherever he’s on that street, he is discovered one thing ecstatic to share.
