First Listen: Grinderman
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Track:Honey Bee
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Nick Cave: vocals, electric guitar, organ, pianoWarren Ellis: electric bouzouki, Fendocaster, violin, viola, acoustic guitar, backing vocalsMartyn Casey: bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocalsJim Sclavunos: drums, percussion, backing vocals.The story of Grinderman begins within the working processes of another band: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. At the start of 2004, when Nick Cave took a small team of Bad Seeds members - violinist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P Casey and drummer Jim Sclavunos - off to the tiny Misère studio in Paris for a songwriting session, they effectively established a new working process.That's as may be, but it's only the first three tracks of their debut album that is, likely, truly Grinderman - and not a Nick Cave redux. It's a shame. Grinderman is brutal and intensely, well, male, bitching about sex and women through gritted teeth.So the Nick Cave album that starts around track four will require another listen. I spent this time waiting for Grinderman to come back...which it did, at the end of the album, as a reprise of the first song, "Get It On."One song that teeters above the skyline, shakily balanced between Cave and Grinderman, is "Honey Bee." Perhaps this is the lovechild that this union should have produced.
Nick Cave: vocals, electric guitar, organ, pianoWarren Ellis: electric bouzouki, Fendocaster, violin, viola, acoustic guitar, backing vocalsMartyn Casey: bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocalsJim Sclavunos: drums, percussion, backing vocals.The story of Grinderman begins within the working processes of another band: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. At the start of 2004, when Nick Cave took a small team of Bad Seeds members - violinist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P Casey and drummer Jim Sclavunos - off to the tiny Misère studio in Paris for a songwriting session, they effectively established a new working process.That's as may be, but it's only the first three tracks of their debut album that is, likely, truly Grinderman - and not a Nick Cave redux. It's a shame. Grinderman is brutal and intensely, well, male, bitching about sex and women through gritted teeth.So the Nick Cave album that starts around track four will require another listen. I spent this time waiting for Grinderman to come back...which it did, at the end of the album, as a reprise of the first song, "Get It On."One song that teeters above the skyline, shakily balanced between Cave and Grinderman, is "Honey Bee." Perhaps this is the lovechild that this union should have produced.
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