Since 1984, Nick Cave and his buddy Mick Harvey have been inextricably linked. They were the basis of the success of Cave and his backing band The Bad Seeds. In 2009 Harvey unexpectedly left the band and with his departure rock and roll seems to have disappeared as well. It was still present on Dig Lazerus Dig !!! (2008), but the successor Push The Sky Away has become a deeply dark melancholic
… record, as the remarkable album cover suggests. Cave scatters with dreamy stories, which are sometimes impossible to make sense of. In the almost eight-minute long Higgs Boson Blues, he one moment refers to blues legend Robert Johnson and in the last verse the phrase 'Hanna Montana does The African Savannah' pops up. The - at times inexplicable - poetry drips from Push The Sky Away and also fits perfectly with Cave's voice. It is therefore one of his better records in his considerable oeuvre. And that without Mick Harvey. (BvdV)more
