Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus album flac

Abattoir Blues, The Lyre of Orpheus is the thirteenth studio album by the Australian alternative rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 20 September 2004 on Mute Records. It is a double album with a total of seventeen songs-nine on Abattoir Blues and eight on The Lyre of Orpheus.

The work is the group’s first double album and comprises a total of seventeen songs, nine under the title of Abattoir Blues and eight under the title of The Lyre of Orpheus. Abattoir Blues, The Lyre of Orpheus was the second album of the group produced by Nick Launay, after Nocturama. Recorded at Studio Ferber in Paris, France between March and April 2004, Nick Cave used a The Bad Seeds lineup composed of Mick Harvey, Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos, Warren Ellis and James Johnston

Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus is a double CD or, rather, two completely different albums packaged in one very handsome box with a stylish lyric booklet and subtly colored pastel sleeves. They were recorded in a total of 16 days by producer Nick Launay (Kate Bush, Midnight Oil, Girls Against Boys, Silverchair, INXS, Virgin Prunes, et a. Abbatoir Blues, the first disc in the set (packaged in pink, of course), is a rock & roll record

Fable of the Brown Ape. Disc 2: The Lyre of Orpheus. Abattoir Blues, The Lyre of Orpheus – (in . and stereo). Additional Tracks: She’s Leaving You.

Mixed at Astoria, London in April/May 2004. This album is dedicated to Mick Geyer".

In the wake of longtime Bad Seeds member Blixa Bargeld's departure, Nick Cave issues this double album- its halves ostensibly split between quiet and more chaotic material- on which he further explores human nature's dichotomous penchants for piety and depravity. You can almost taste the brimstone puffing from his nostrils on Abattoir Blues's opener "Get Ready for Love", which- in its full-throated gospel-punk regalia- sounds like it could be the most raucous Blues Explosion track ever. This unruly blast sets the stage for The Bad Seeds' most varied and dynamic collection in years, an ironic fact considering that this is their first album since the departure of designated avant guardian Blixa Bargeld.

Nick Cave's familiar face appeared on the front page of the Brighton Argus, wearing an expression of glowering discomfort. Perhaps he had been warned in advance of the accompanying headline: Rock King Cave Backs West Pier "Jungle" Bid. The 46-year-old singer was throwing his lanky frame behind a plan to grow "hardy plants" around the rusted steel structure: "It's a gamble, but an exciting one - something the community could watch evolve. Less than 18 months later, Cave has returned with a double album, recorded without long-term Bad Seeds guitarist Blixa Bargeld, and broadly split by mood - Abbatoir Blues is snarling and bilious, The Lyre of Orpheus gentler in tone. Bargeld's departure seems to have shaken Cave and his cohorts in the best way imaginable. The Bad Seeds sounded reined in on Nocturama, a waste of perhaps the most distinctive backing band in rock.

The album is a wonderfully diverse affair of the light, the dark, and the many shades inbetween. An unadulterated masterpiece. Not many in The album is a wonderfully diverse affair of the light, the dark, and the many shades inbetween. Not many in popular music today can boast of a career so vital and relevant. An Unlike a U2 who primarily concern themselves with more immediate grande gestures and themes. Cave concentrates soley on the state of the spiritual