Artist: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Title: Your Funeral My Trial
Label: Mute
Genre: Rock
Bitrate: 191kbit av.
Time: 00:42:47
Size: 61.87 mb
Rip Date: 2009-05-01
Str Date: 2009-04-27
01. Sad Waters 5:00
02. The Carny 8:01
03. Your Funeral My Trial 3:56
04. Stranger Than Kindness 4:46
05. Jack's Shadow 5:40
06. Hard On For Love 5:19
07. She Fell Away 4:30
08. Long Time Man 5:35
Release Notes:
Reduced to a quartet for the most part, with Adamson joining Cave,
Bargeld, Harvey and Wydler on only a couple of tracks, the Seeds turn
from the interpretive triumph of Kicking Against the Pricks to another
strong high, the mostly-original Your Funeral...My Trial. The one cover
is a sharp, unsurprisingly dramatic version of Tim Rose's "Long Time
Man." As for the rest of the album, Trial shows the Seeds working as,
again, a remarkably accomplished and varied act, ever available and
ready to explore a wide range of musics distilled into Cave's often
dark, always passionate vision. Arguably Cave and company have by now
so clearly established their overall style that Your Funeral...My Trial
is much more a refinement of the past than anything else, but so good
is their work that resistance is near impossible. If anything, the
brooding power of the Seeds is more restrained than ever, suggesting
destructive endings and overwhelming love without directly playing it.
Songs like "Jacks Shadow" and the gentler but still melancholy moods of
"Sad Waters," detailing a riverside scene between a couple, are simply
grand. The opening title track sets the mood well, Cave handling not
merely vocals but Hammond organ, adding a strangely sweet air to the
late-night atmosphere of the piece. "The Carny" is a definite
highlight, the cracked music-box/carnival accompaniment courtesy of
Harvey utterly appropriate for Cave's tale of a circus gone horribly
wrong in ways Edward Gorey would appreciate. "Hard On for Love," as the
title pretty clearly gives away, is at once sensual and blunt right
down to the lyrics, Biblical references and all, as the feverish music
rises in a tide of emotion.