Scene from the new documentary
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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have been making music with the Bad Seeds for decades. However, their first album together as a duo was not released until 2021: CARNAGE is a record “with which Nick Cave wanted to move away from storytelling”, according to RS editor Arne Willander in his review. The album was once again a great work, Willander continued: “‘Carnage’ is gospel and incantation, an immersion in intensity.”
Now, in a new documentary called This Much I Know To Be True, we can catch Cave and Ellis working on CARNAGE as well as GHOSTEEN, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ 2019 album. The film by director Andrew Dominik is scheduled to premiere at the Berlinale 2022 and be released in cinemas or as a stream “in the course of the year”. Now there is already a first trailer:
At the beginning Cave says: “I would have defined myself as a musician or a writer and I’m trying to wean myself off those definitions of myself that are about my occupation, and see myself as a person.” He wants to redefine himself as a “husband and father and friend and citizen who makes music”.
Most recently, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds released B-SIDES AND RARITIES PART II and previously featured the song “Earthlings”.