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Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 26 Ratings

  • Summary: The live album was recorded during the filming of the Australian artist's solo performance with just a piano at London's Alexandra Palace in June 2020.
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Mojo
    Nov 20, 2020
    100
    Idiot Prayer is extraordinary, breathtakingly varied within its minimal format, and compelling throughout. [Dec 2020, p.84]
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  2. Uncut
    Nov 20, 2020
    90
    The performance of a lifetime. [Dec 2020, p.27]
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  3. Pitchfork
    Nov 20, 2020
    80
    The result is a performance that exists in a strange hinterland, an album that’s unnervingly intimate yet flickers with the strange unreality of a dream. Idiot Prayer is as up-close and personal an encounter with Cave as there’s ever been. But a little mystery remains, always.
  4. Classic Rock Magazine
    Nov 20, 2020
    80
    Intense and stripped back, with only his own art to fall back on, Cave cuts a truly formidable figure. This is an album you will return to again and again. [Dec 2020, p.85]
  5. Under The Radar
    Nov 30, 2020
    65
    While this style works well, and is even more suited for some tracks, it diminishes the appeal of others.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. jablack
    Nov 23, 2020
    10
    One of the best live albums released in a long time!! Absolutely beautiful renditions of classics.
  2. Marius_Barbules
    Nov 24, 2020
    10
    It's beautiful and simple and you can't rate this lower than 9 if you love Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
  4. strangerthan
    Dec 4, 2020
    10
    One of the great one man live albums of all time. His wonderful baritone delivery accompanied with piano reveals even more of the profoundOne of the great one man live albums of all time. His wonderful baritone delivery accompanied with piano reveals even more of the profound depths that permeate his songwriting. To put it simply - Absolutely Stunning! A welcome and commiserating gift during this more than challenging year.… Expand
  5. Ricko
    Jan 12, 2021
    9
    The magical Nick Cave in the eeriest and most suitable of settings during the year of 2020. Almost an hour an a half of Cave alone with aThe magical Nick Cave in the eeriest and most suitable of settings during the year of 2020. Almost an hour an a half of Cave alone with a piano stumbling through some of his greatest works. At times you miss the magnificent work done in the studio with the Bad Seeds but at other times the songs have never been so sharp and piercing. "Idiot Prayer" is no place for an introduction to this great man but its a must have for existing fans. In the Covid19 era of human civilisation, we are in a state of isolation and waiting. Waiting for an end and return to the social way of life we took for granted. Nick Cave playing alone in an empty venue is incredibly fitting and its no surprise that 2 of the more spine tingling moments are the tracks "Are You the One That I've Been Waiting For" and "Waiting for You".… Expand
  6. Yui_Nikiforov
    Nov 21, 2020
    0
    I did not like it much, wait a little more from the songs, but it is only my opinion it continues to grow

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