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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

Review by Andrzej Lukowski

Nick Cave’s schtick these days is less demonic preacher, more old guy railing self-mockingly against the dying of the light.»

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'push the sky away' is the fifteenth studio album by nick cave and the bad seeds. at the heart of 'push the sky away' is a naturalism and warmth that makes it the most subtly beautiful of all the bad seeds albums. the contemporary settings of myths, and the cultural references that have time-stamped nick's songs of the twenty-first century mist lightly through details drawn from the life he observed around his seaside home, through the tall windows on the album's mysterious and ambiguous cover. 'push the sky away' has a clarity and sweet strangeness that's built upon the refusal to accept limitations, whether they be the traditional uses and sounds of musical instruments, lyric styles, or diminished spiritual horizons.
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