Name: Push the Sky Away
Brand: Bad Seeds Ltd.
SKU: 30061524
Price: 12.47 GBP
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)

Performer Notes

Personnel: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (background vocals); Nick Cave (vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Conway Savage (vocals); Warren Ellis (tenor guitar, violin, viola, flute, Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer, loops); Thomas Wydler (drums); James Sclavunos (percussion).
Audio Mixers: Nick Cave; Nick Launay; Warren Ellis.
Recording information: La Fabrique, Saint-Rmy de Provence (02/2012); Seedy Underbelly, Los Angeles, CA (02/2012); Sing Sing, Melbourne (02/2012); The Toy Rooms, Brighton (02/2012); La Fabrique, Saint-Rmy de Provence (05/2012); Seedy Underbelly, Los Angeles, CA (05/2012); Sing Sing, Melbourne (05/2012); The Toy Rooms, Brighton (05/2012); La Fabrique, Saint-Rmy de Provence (06/2012-07/2012); Seedy Underbelly, Los Angeles, CA (06/2012-07/2012); Sing Sing, Melbourne (06/2012-07/2012); The Toy Rooms, Brighton (06/2012-07/2012); La Fabrique, Saint-Rmy de Provence (07/2012); Seedy Underbelly, Los Angeles, CA (07/2012); Sing Sing, Melbourne (07/2012); The Toy Rooms, Brighton (07/2012); La Fabrique, Saint-Rmy de Provence (08/2012); Seedy Underbelly, Los Angeles, CA (08/2012); Sing Sing, Melbourne (08/2012); The Toy Rooms, Brighton (08/2012); La Fabrique, Saint-Rmy de Provence (12/2011); Seedy Underbelly, Los Angeles, CA (12/2011); Sing Sing, Melbourne (12/2011); The Toy Rooms, Brighton (12/2011).
Photographer: Cat Stevens.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds re-emerge with Push the Sky Away, the first recording by this band since 2008. Produced by Nick Launay, the album was recorded at La Fabrique, a studio built inside a 19th century mansion in southern France. The two video singles, "We No Who U R" and "Jubilee Street," are both darkly beautiful ballads that harken back to the Boatman's Call and No More Shall We Part, and also contain various loops and electronic textures by the band's musical director, Warren Ellis. The Bad Seeds advanced the album with a brief documentary on YouTube.

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (p.68) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "SKY is full of tiny sounds -- plinking guitars, pulsing bass, lazy subtle drums."

Q (Magazine) (p.97) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "['Jubilee Street'] takes off slowly like a great, black, heavy-winged bird: at first ominous, then transcendent."

Album: Push the Sky Away
#	Song Title		Time
1)	We No Who U R	More Info...	0:04
2)	Wide Lovely Eyes	More Info...	0:03
3)	Water's Edge	More Info...	0:03
4)	Jubilee Street	More Info...	0:06
5)	Mermaids	More Info...	0:03
6)	We Real Cool	More Info...	0:04
7)	Finishing Jubilee Street	More Info...	0:04
8)	Higgs Boson Blues	More Info...	0:08
9)	Push the Sky Away	More Info...	0:04

Album: Push the Sky Away
#	Song Title		Time
1)	We No Who U R	More Info...	0:04
2)	Wide Lovely Eyes	More Info...	0:03
3)	Water's Edge	More Info...	0:03
4)	Jubilee Street	More Info...	0:06
5)	Mermaids	More Info...	0:03
6)	We Real Cool	More Info...	0:04
7)	Finishing Jubilee Street	More Info...	0:04
8)	Higgs Boson Blues	More Info...	0:08
9)	Push the Sky Away	More Info...	0:04