Murder Ballads brought Nick Cave's morbidity to near-parodic levels, which makes the disarmingly frank and introspective songs of The Boatman's Call all the more startling. A song cycle equally inspired by Cave's failed romantic affairs and religious doubts, The Boatman's Call captures him at his most honest and despairing -- while he retains a fascination for gothic, Biblical imagery, it has little of the grand theatricality and self-conscious poetics that made his albums emotionally distant in the past. This time, there's no posturing, either from Cave or the Bad Seeds. The music is direct, yet it has many textures, from lues to jazz, which offer a revealing and sympathetic bed for Cave's best, most affecting songs. The Boatman's Call is one of his finest albums and arguably the masterpiece he has been promising throughout his career.
They all call for patience. The Supremes tell you that you can't hurry love. Your mother tells you not to settle, not to worry about the years passing faster and the stacks of marriage announcements and invitations. Your friend tells you the waiting will be worth it; all the disappointments, false starts, and sputtering endings are turning you into the person you will need to be when the time f...
More >
They all call for patience. The Supremes tell you that you can't hurry love. Your mother tells you not to settle, not to worry about the years passing faster and the stacks of marriage announcements and invitations. Your friend tells you the waiting will be worth it; all the disappointments, false starts, and sputtering endings are turning you into the person you will need to be when the time f...
More >
More >
© 2006-2009 Mog Inc. All Rights Reserved
 "The Boatman's Call")
