Live From KCRW is a Alt/Indie album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, originally released in 2013. On Gatefold: 8 pressings tracked, owned by 9 collectors.
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Alternative Rock
- stripped-back
- brooding
- poetic
About
This stirring live performance in front of an attentive Santa Monica audience at Apogee Studios for KCRW was originally appended to the deluxe edition of Nick Cave’s excellent 2013 album <i>Push the Sky Away</i>. Such a performance, however, deserves its own spotlight, and this standalone release should bring it the attention it deserves. Cave’s a blistering performer who can channel a voodoo priest bringing the Southern Gothic to your town, but on <i>Live from KCRW</i> he works with restraint. His singing has improved remarkably over the years; where his crooning was once tonally suspect, it's now confident and dead-on, such that “Far from Me” and the landmark “The Mercy Seat” are both delivered with a sensitivity that’s chilling. Warren Ellis’ violin is often the special sauce that brings the sound into the next dimension, but it certainly helps that Cave is touring his best album in a few years.
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Tracklist
- 1Higgs Boson Blues (Live from KCRW)8:46
- 2Far From Me (Live from KCRW)5:27
- 3Stranger Than Kindness (Live from KCRW)4:53
- 4The Mercy Seat (Live from KCRW)5:11
- 5And No More Shall We Part (Live from KCRW)3:50
- 6Wide Lovely Eyes (Live from KCRW)4:13
- 7Mermaids (Live from KCRW)5:23
- 8People Ain't No Good (Live from KCRW)5:18
- 9Push the Sky Away (Live from KCRW)4:46
- 10Jack the Ripper (Live from KCRW)4:28
Credits
Performers
- Martyn P. CaseyBASS
- Warren EllisGUITAR VIOLIN PIANO
- Barry AdamsonORGAN PERCUSSION BACKING VOCALS
- Jim SclavunosPERCUSSION DRUMS BACKING VOCALS
- Nick CavePIANO VOCALS
9 collectors on Gatefold own this · 8 pressings tracked on Gatefold