Bad Seeds, Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part
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Artist: Bad Seeds, Nick CaveEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-04-10
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
- As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
- And No More Shall We Part
- Hallelujah
- Love Letter
- Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow
- God Is In The House
- Oh My Lord
- Sweetheart Come
- Sorrowful Wife
- We Came Along This Road
- Gates To The Garden
- Darker With The Day
Music reviews of No More Shall We Part
Music Review: No More Shall We Part
Rating: 4 Stars
The problem with being a recording artist these days seems to be that people expect all your work to be the same. Once you get a good thing going, you're supposed to stick with it, and never deviate. Which is why so many albums nowadays blend into each other.
A lot of Nick Cave fans have declared albums like "The Boatman's Call" and "No More Shall We Part" to be 'not worthy' of Nick Cave, because the music on them is not the racacous, nightmarish tunes of LPs like "From Her To Eternity" or "The First Born Is Dead", but instead we have a different side of Nick Cave. A Nick Cave no longer so obsessed with death and murder - though there are some pretty twisted and strange tracks on this album, make no mistake - but rather a Nick Cave finding a new creative turn.
And just because it's different, it's by no means worse for it.
"No More..." provides an interesting balance between "The Boatman's Call" and "Let Love In". Cave is still largely in a place of love songs and beauty - though, as mentioned above, there are some pretty wierd tales to be told on this record - but the music which was so reined in and minimalist on "Boatman" has exploded back into the Bad Seeds regular extravagance. It's overdone, it's huge. But it's always appropriate, and it's oftentimes beautiful.
Take "Oh My Lord", arguably the standout track of the album. Forgetting the lyrics for a moment (which are truly stunning, let me just say), the music stands perfectly on its own. The addition of Warren Ellis (violin) to the Bad Seeds is the perfect vehicle for Cave to deliver some of the most extravagant songs he's ever written. "Oh My Lord" phases from a dark piano opening to a thunderous combination of the entire Bad Seeds repetoire - something that happens elsewhere on the LP as well ("The Sorrowful Wife" and "Halleluljah" in particular). The Bad Seeds, kept rather quiet over the course of "Boatman's Call", have come back to the fore here to deliver some of their best work yet.
Of course, it's not all multilayered and extravagant. Take, for example, "Love Letter". One of my personal favourites (I can get along with the sentiment), Cave's devotional plea for forgiveness is accompanied by merely himself on piano and some hints of Jim Sclavunos on drums. It's truly beautiful. Elsewhere the backing is more definite but still subtle - "Gates To The Garden" softly carries itself along on the back of Cave's piano, but Conway Savage's organs and Blixa Bargeld's beautiful guitar slides are necessary to bring the song to life. Likewise, though the large instrumental tracts of "We Came Along This Road" (a late climax for the album) are nothing extravagant, they're representitive of the Bad Seed's style of playing as a whole - restrained yet dominant.
The lyrics, of course, also rate a mention. "As I Sat Sadly By Her Side" is one of the great lyrical compositions I've heard for some time - here Cave looks at the world without rose coloured glasses, and when you finally understand the song (it can take some minutes, it can take others weeks) you realise that it's truly amazingly insightful. Cave's delivery - singing a much higher pitch than his normal bass-end rumble - is one of his great vocal achievments. "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow" is almost funny but definitely not parodical - it's view on religion is quite serious and, again, Cave delivers a stunning performance (the Bad Seeds are also brilliant on both these tracks, though in a more traditional, not-minimal-but-still-not-extravagant way). Kate and Anna McGarrigle also provide vocals on this LP - an interesting, but nice touch from Cave - making standout appearances on "Sweetheart Come" and "Darker With The Day". Speaking of "Darker", it deserves a special mention for being the perfect way to close this album - a soft, beautiful yet sinister retrospective glance, dealing with nearly everything the LP has dealt with - yet it doesn't sound contrived, just simple and heartfelt.
"No More Shall We Part" is an odd effort, for sure. Very much a "different" kind of album to that we're used to seeing from Cave. But that's a good thing. You see, if people only did what they became famous for doing, it'd get old fast, and they'd run out of ideas even faster. Nick Cave's turn to this kind of music should be cherished because he's done it, he's done it well, and - no matter whether it's screamed or crooned - Nick Cave music has a style all of its own. This is a part of it - and it's brilliant.
SONGS OF NOTE - As I Sat Sadly By Her Side, Love Letter, Oh My Lord
Description of No More Shall We Part
5.1 Remastered Collector's Editions includes:Remastered Stereo Album
New Surround Mix
B-Sides of the Singles
Specially Commissioned Short Film by UK artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
Videos
Exclusive Sleeve Notes
& More
No More Shall We Part contains a greater wealth of musical invention and lyrical intelligence in its 68 minutes than most acts manage in an entire career. Cave is not merely in a different league from most of his peers; he's scarcely even playing the same game. No More sees a renewed emphasis on the virtuosity of Cave's longtime backing band, the Bad Seeds (Cave's last album, 1997's superb The Boatman's Call was a relatively sparse affair). The Seeds decorate the sprawling ballads on No More Shall We Part with aplomb, helped on several tracks by the crystalline harmonies of folk singers Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Cave's lyrical preoccupations remain constant--God, love (and the loss thereof), and death. As ever, Cave deals with these themes with great agility and imagination, and, as ever, he is funnier than he is generally given credit for. --Andrew Mueller
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