Push the Sky Away
- Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
- Band Name: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
- Record Label: Bad Seeds Ltd.
- Release Date: Feb 19, 2013
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Feb 20, 2013100The peak of Cave's 15th album with the Bad Seeds is a multidimensional walkabout through sonic shadows and fog. [22 Feb 2013, p.74]
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Feb 15, 2013100These are big themes, dealt with imaginatively by a singer and a band both operating at the peak of their powers. Album of the year?
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Feb 13, 201395Experimental yet built on superb songwriting, fresh and surprising but still somehow recognisably a Bad Seeds record, the amount of innovation and inspiration found on Push The Sky Away proves that Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds must still care an awful lot about this rock ‘n’ roll stuff.
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Jun 6, 201390Not only have the Bad Seeds delivered another healthy baby, but perhaps the most gracefully beautiful of the whole brood. [Mar 2013, p.98]
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Feb 25, 201390The lift-off and liberation come subtly, bearing the masterful marks of men who've learned the value of compositional patience (it's no coincidence that Cave and Ellis have also forged a successful partnership as film scorers). This, ultimately, makes the emotional devastation you experience once the record has spun all the more remarkable.
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Feb 22, 201390The absurdity and terror that Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have so often courted aren’t absent on Push The Sky Away. They’re just muted, and rendered all the more seductive via lush arrangements and Cave’s crooning baritone.
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Feb 19, 201390A masterpiece that merges the experimentation and freedom of their side projects with Cave’s most tender songcraft.
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Feb 19, 201390Richly arranged, masterfully sequenced, and full of brooding, Push the Sky Away combines the stately beauty of The Boatman’s Call and No More Shall We Part with the intensity of Grinderman/Lazarus-era Cave while managing to sound like neither.
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Feb 19, 201390In Push the Sky Away, an album of thrilling darkness pierced by moments of brilliant light, Cave may have crafted his defining statement.
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Feb 14, 201390Potent in its masculine restraint, this record has surely always existed, just waiting to be plucked from the surf; a mercurial, magisterial, stick of seaside rock.
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Feb 14, 201390Even with all of this depth, Push The Sky Away finds Cave doing more with less lyrically.
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Feb 11, 201390There's something deeply satisfying about the way the songs fit together as an album, their sequence strengthened both by the homogenous tone of the music with its air of wistful melancholy, and by the way each song seems to push the next one forward. [Mar 2013, p.61]
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Feb 11, 201390An LP as weighty, compelling and brilliant as The Bad Seeds have ever produced.
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Feb 11, 201390Cave is always the first to give fulsome credit to his band, and they aim true here in the most explorative, coherent and well-realised Bad Seeds album in years.
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Mar 14, 201388While it’s likely that Push the Sky Away will not cause the seas to part before him, it will surely ephemerally deliver us from this evil wasteland of vacant contemporary culture and mutilated morality.
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Feb 19, 201384The album surprises continually, offering humor, crises and redemption within the sound of something as lovely and enticing as it is aggressive and challenging.