Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ “Wild God” Album Download ZIP & MP3 Free Files
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds are back with a new album. Wild God, the follow-up to Ghosteen, arrives August 30, and you can hear the title track below. Cave and Warren Ellis, who released the interim album Carnage in 2021, produced the new LP, with David Fridmann on mixing duties. Colin Greenwood—Radiohead bassist and sometimes Cave touring bandmate—and guitarist Luis Almau are billed as additional performers on the LP. Scroll down to see the tracklist and cover art.
Cave said in press materials, “There’s no fucking around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves you. I love that about it.”
He added, “I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me. It bursts out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a master plan when we make a record. The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who played them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”
The band—Cave, Ellis, Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Jim Sclavunos, and George Vjestica—wrote and recorded Wild God at Miraval Studios in the French city of Provence and at Soundtree Studios in London. It will be released by the label Bad Seed Ltd., in partnership with Play It Again Sam.
Tracklist:
- Song of the Lake
- Wild God
- Frogs
- Joy
- Final Rescue Attempt
- Conversion
- Cinnamon Horses
- Long Dark Night
- O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)
- As the Waters Cover the Sea
About Artist:
Australian rock group Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds was founded in 1983 by guitarist/singer Blixa Bargeld, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey, and vocalist Nick Cave. Over the course of its career, the band has included international players such as Cave, bassist Martyn P. Casey, guitarist George Vjestica (United Kingdom), keyboardist/percussionist Larry Mullins, better known as Toby Dammit (United States), violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, and drummers Thomas Wydler (Switzerland) and Jim Sclavunos (United States). They have published seventeen studio albums and done multiple international tours. They have been called “one of the most original and celebrated bands of the post-punk and alternative rock eras in the ’80s and onward”.
The band was formed when Cave and Harvey’s previous group, the Birthday Party, disintegrated. The members of the band had first met in a Melbourne boarding school. The band mostly drew from post-punk, blues, and gothic rock throughout the 1980s, starting with their debut album From Her to Eternity (1984). They also assembled a changing, international roster that included artists like Blixa Bargeld, Barry Adamson, and Kid Congo Powers. Later, on albums like The Good Son (1990) and The Boatman’s Call (1997), the band mellowed out and included new influences. The band expanded their sound further when Harvey left in 2009, incorporating electronic and ambient elements, which are highly noticeable on the three albums Push the Sky Away (2013), Skeleton Tree (2016), and Ghosteen (2019).