Released on 30 August, "Wild God" is the 18th., studio album by the Australian outfit Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, produced by Dave Fridmann and preceded by the intense singles "Wild God", "Frogs" and "Long Dark Night". The album came five years after "Ghosteen" their 2019 album, this time, the whole album is the first to feature the full participation of the band "The Bad Seeds" somrthing that didn't happen since "Skeleton Tree".
The album has been embraced with a huge success, topping the chars in several European countris so far, helped the record to reach the top ten, also earned positive reviews and two nominations for 67th., Grammy Awards for the "Best Alternative Music Album" and "Best Alternative Music Performance" for the track "Song Of The Lake".
According to Nick Cave, he began to write the album on New Year's Day 2023, then the recording took place at Miraval Studios, in Provence and Soundtree in London, the band produced the album with Warren Ellis, other collaborators includes Colin Greenwood from Radiohead and Luis Almau.
The album explores topics such as convention and experimentation in order to enhance rich imagery and emotive narratives, it's a album that purusit on listener an effect just like the way it had on Cave himself, and complicated record bu deeply and joyously infectious. The album aesthetic was influenced by their European tour 2022, when the full band member join together for the first time since the cancellation of their Ghosteen tour, due the COVID-19 pandemic, it was that chaotic energy of the Bad Seeds performing again alive that brought this album, with pure joy and energy because the band was playing back together, something that Nick felt too.
The name of the album came from a song on it, actually Cave had three names on mind, "Conversion", "Joy" and "Wild God", they pick the last one because it has a powerful and mysterious title for an album. The album ultimately found each of the Bad Seeds members contributing fully to the recording process for the first time since Skeleton Tree (2016), with guitarist George Vjestica noting: "On Wild God, it felt like there was more space to express yourself. But you don't get many passes. You've got to be on it.
This is a truly gospel record, and this is something that Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have always been steeped in religion and religious iconography, but this time that has been replaced with the love and compassion associated more with the New Testament. However, the album is more focused in the band fans and listeners, that shares a common bond, you can hear a certain return to Jubilee Street on the title track "Wild God", while the crushed skull in the fratricide in the brilliant "Frogs", and more storm tossed melodrama on one of the most intense and beautiful tracks of the record "Final Rescue Attempt", or the haunting and dramatic "Conversion" and intense "Joy", the whole album is just of a one piece, a work of such artistic confidence and creativity that it has the bearing of timeless being, even in O Wow O Woe (How Wonderful She Is)", which actually is considering one of the best tracks from the sed describing Cave's a brilliant masterful love song.
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