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Ghosteen is the seventeenth studio album by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds . It was released digitally on October 4, 2019 and was released as a double album on CD and LP on November 8, 2019 .
background
Ghosteen forms a trilogy with the previous albums Push the Sky Away and Skeleton Tree . Like its predecessor, released in 2016, the album is again dominated by the accidental death of Nick Cave's son Arthur in July 2015. In February 2017, the songwriter started work on the successor to the highly acclaimed Skeleton Tree . In addition to mortality and loss, the songs also deal with love and hope. The concept album is divided into two parts, as Nick Cave says:
"The songs on the first album are the children. The songs on the second album are their parents. Ghosteen is a migrating spirit. "
Ghosteen was recorded between 2018 and spring 2019 in studios in West Hollywood , Malibu , Brighton and Berlin . In addition to Cave and Warren Ellis , Lance Powell and filmmaker Andrew Dominik were involved in the mixing at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles . In 2016, the director shot the documentary One More Time with Feeling about the creation process of the album Skeleton Tree .
Musically, the album is characterized by warm ambient sounds and the use of analog synthesizers and belt loops , spherical soundscapes take the place of rhythms .
The album cover is a contrast to the black-colored motif of Skeleton Tree . In the paradisiacal scenery is a variation of the painting The Breath of Life of the painter Tom duBois from 2001. The picture on the cover has received several Kitsch referred . The case was designed by Cave and the design agency Hingston Studio, the photos are by Matthew Thorne.
The album title combines the English word Ghost ("Geist") with the Irish suffix -een . Translated, Ghosteen literally means "Little Spirit".
publication
Ghosteen premiered on October 3, 2019 as a video on the band's official YouTube channel, before becoming available for download and music streaming the following day . On November 8, 2019, Ghosteen Ltd. and distribution partner Rough Trade Records released the album as a double CD and double LP.
Track list
All songs are penned by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis .
- Part 1 (The Children)
- 1. Spinning Song - 4:43
- 2. Bright Horses - 4:52
- 3. Waiting for You - 3:54 am
- 4th Night Raid - 5:07 am
- 5. Sun Forest - 6:46
- 6. Galleon Ship - 4:14
- 7. Ghosteen Speaks - 4:02
- 8. Leviathan - 4:47
- Part 2 (Their Parents)
- 9. Ghosteen - 12:10
- 10. Fireflies - 3:23
- 11. Hollywood - 2:12 pm
reception
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After its release, Ghosteen received mostly rave reviews. The website Metacritic , which summarizes reviews from various editors, rates Ghosteen based on 24 reviews with 97 out of 100 possible points, making it the highest rated album of 2019 and also the highest rated album of the 2010s. Arno Raffeiner, the reviewer of the Spiegel , didn't like the album: Bad Seeds had never been heard like this before, but it was questionable whether that was to be welcomed in view of the “cheesy choruses and synths”. Cave deliver a "cliché of healing music", the lyrics lack any humor. The animal fables that he tells on Ghosteen wanted to be understood in the “tradition of plaintiffs and consolation givers, who repeatedly proclaim the growth and decay, the banal, dark, wondrous constants of life”. However, Cave had "told better parables" on his older records. In the taz , Robert Mießner described the music on the album as " Ambient - Gospel " and was happy about the refined musical details that one could discover by listening closely. Overall, it is, also against the background of the accidental death of Caves son in 2016, "really gloomy".
Web links
- Official Homepage (English)
- Ghosteen at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart sources: AU DE AT CH UK
- ↑ Tosten Burks: Listen to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' New Album Ghosteen on Spin (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ Chris Heath: The Love and Terror of Nick Cave on GQ (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ Jon Pareles: Nick Cave Searches for Solace on 'Ghosteen' on New York Times (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ a b c Ghosteen - The New Album on NickCave.com (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ a b c Alexis Petridis: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Ghosteen review - the most beautiful songs he has ever recorded on The Guardian (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ Tom duBois - The Breath of Life on ChristCenteredMall.com (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ Werner Herpell: Nick Caves "Ghosteen": Mourning must be out on Frankfurter Neue Presse (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ Jenni Zylka, Fabian Elsäßer: One for children, one for parents on Deutschlandfunk (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ -een on Wiktionary
- ↑ Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen - LPx2 on Rough Trade Records (accessed October 20, 2019)
- ↑ Mark Deming: AllMusic Review by Mark Deming on AllMusic (accessed October 20, 2019)
- ↑ Kory Grow: Nick Cave Looks for Peace and Finds Hope on 'Ghosteen' on Rolling Stone (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ Grayson Haver Currin: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Ghosteen on Pitchfork (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ Elizabeth Aubrey: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 'Ghosteen' review: a beautiful account of harrowing grief on New Musical Express (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ Helen Brown: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds review, 'Ghosteen': Cave sounds buoyed, not weakened, by exposing his wounds on this astonishing album on The Independent (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ Victoria Segal: Love & mercy , in: Mojo (December 2019), issue 313, p. 87.
- ↑ André Bosse: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen on Musikexpress (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ Maximilian Fritz: Hope and suffering have never been closer together on Laut.de (accessed October 15, 2019)
- ↑ Metascore: Ghosteen by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Reviews and Tracks on Metacritic (as of November 11, 2019)
- ↑ The Best Albums of the Decade (2010-19), According to Music Critics on Metacritic (November 11, 2019)
- ↑ Arno Raffeiner: New album by Nick Cave: Is that healing or is it still repression? . spiegel.de, October 4, 2019, accessed October 16, 2019.
- ↑ Robert Mießner: Ambient Gospel . In: taz of October 22, 2019, p. 17.