It certainly won’t sound like a classic The Bad Seeds opus, according to Nick Cave.
Nick Cave has revealed he is in the process of finishing an album with his band The Bad Seeds. This was announced by the Australian on his “The Red Hand Files” page known. Cave did not want to reveal what he intends to do with the new work. However, the hitherto unnamed album should sound “different”.
Nick Cave: “We can’t just go back to rock ‘n’ roll”
On “The Red Hand Files” Nick Cave regularly answers his fans’ questions. In a new post, he revealed he won’t be answering fan questions for a while in order to get the new album finished. Since the beginning of the year he has been working on the successor to GHOSTEEN, which was released in 2019 and was highly praised by the ME editorial team. “My plan for this year is to release an album with The Bad Seeds. That’s good news and bad news. The good news is, who doesn’t want a The Bad Seeds record? The bad news is I still have to write the damn thing,” the 65-year-old wrote in the post.
Although the singer-songwriter previously shared some ideas for lyrics, his fans might be in for a few surprises. Because according to Cave, the new album has constantly changed and broken new ground. He has already told the music magazine “NME” that the new projects with The Bad Seeds will take a different approach: “We can no longer make an old-school Bad Seeds album that simply has a rock band playing. […] The new record will not sound like ambient at all, but I don’t see us just going back to rock ‘n’ roll. I just don’t know how to do it anymore.”
When exactly the new album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will be released and what it will be called is not yet known. To tide you over until release, fans can instead tune into the Nick Cave documentary This Much I Know To Be True, available on the streaming service MUBI.