Name: Murder Ballads
Brand: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

IMT5007609.1

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Colour

black

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

UK Import

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2015-02-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Lasgo

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5414939710919

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Mute

Essential

In his trademark bottomless voice, <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/nick-cave-the-bad-seeds">Nick Cave</a> narrates one tragic, violent tale after another.

In excruciating detail, he examines the fine apects of murder, varying viewpoints between victims and killers, and investigating the dialogue between them from many angles. Murder Ballads, his ninth release with the Bad Seeds, is <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/nick-cave-the-bad-seeds">Cave</a> at his most raw and lyrical. He delves unflinchingly into macabre territory with the backing of his band's spare, moaning, reverb-rich playing - by turns sweetly tuneful and disjointedly dirge-like. <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/pj-harvey">PJ Harvey</a> assumes the role of a woman scorned on Henry Lee, in which she describes stabbing to death the man who rejects her. Her story is interspersed with choruses of, "la la la la la/la la la la lee / a little bird lit down on Henry Lee", adding a sense of perverse humour to the ballad's bleakness. On Where the Wild Roses Grow, a man kills his lover, explaining that "All Beauty Must Die", and Kylie Minogue provides the innocent, breathy voice of the dead lover with a ghostly, haunting softness. Yet amid the troubling, startling brutality runs a sense of fragility and a poetic lyricism that makes these songs linger.

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/murder-ballads-ad4f6701-029f-4215-8680-9c0c8149d649">CD available here.</a>

Murder Ballads

Music US