It looks very well after that Nick Cave ever more may enjoy the privilege of critic-favorite. If he is not already doing. He can do what he wants. And especially when he wants. The Master in pinstripe suit Cave and his Bad Seeds have published with Push The Sky Away, the now now already fifteenth album and the creative peak seems not still climbed. One must not always reinvent or beat to be the (considering the huge artist-relevance and long waiting time) high expectations. Experience, skill and the ability for self-reflection bring a professional like Cave as soon not from the rest. And so went by this time no less than five years after the Cave ratios relatively untwisted Dig !!! Lazarus, Dig !!!. Those who wished a continuation of it, should rather run the reference albums of his short-lived, the second band Grinderman for themselves. Because for Push The Sky Away versa Cave at least formally again significantly quieter tones back. At least the music sounded the Bad Seeds probably never been so abstemious. The rhythmic foundation of We Know Who UR, Wide Lovely Eyes, Waters Edge and We Real Cool form to a minimum reduced loops from scratch guitars, basses and murmuring marimbas. Or maybe Xylophone? Warren Ellis will know best. The deliberately flaunted simplicity is in any case far from being poor in atmosphere. This can be seen especially when out of the apparent inertia of music with strings and choirs increasing but incites a wonderfully rising blues rockers like Jubilee Street. And then also recognizes almost the old Cave again. But the new on Push The Sky Away also like very much. Sometimes the trick is simply to not want to change, or add details, but (almost) entirely to emphasize simple. And suddenly sounds again everything is different.
