Its sincerity feels all the more poignant following the band’s latest full-length, 2016’s Skeleton Tree, written and recorded in the wake of the tragic and sudden death of Cave’s teenage son Arthur. The songs are arranged around acoustic instruments and would reveal any pressing faults or imperfections like pops or background noise. or singer PJ Harvey, with whom he had a brief relationship around that time (as referenced in "West Country Girl", "Black Hair" and "Green Eyes"). Celebrated as the band’s most starkly moving work, key tracks include the single “Into My Arms” and “People Ain’t No Good”, featured in the soundtrack to Shrek 2.

After a career spent tearing down the world with horror and disgust, Nick Cave finally sounds ready to start rebuilding from scratch.He has begun to find a quiet grace, and perhaps even beauty, past all the darkness that's long consumed him. Cave urged the group to embellish as little as possible, seeking to maintain the primary focus on his lyrics and stark solo piano playing, allowing their naked and vulnerable emotional qualities to shine through unvarnished. The A-Side: We are the world's most popular and respected album listening event with satellites in four continents. This is as faultless a pressing as I have on either ordinary vinyl (covering over 4 decades) or 180g vinyl, which only enhances enjoyment of this wonderful set.

And his continued insecurity surrounding emotional honesty has shone through when he states that “confessional writing is a dead end, there’s something about making heroic your own little pains that sticks in my craw. Into My Arms is a love song so perfect you wonder why any other composition of its kind bothers to go up against a ballad that all others should rightfully refer to as ‘Sir’. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It’s such a gorgeous song that Peaches Geldof even has its lyrics tattooed on her (but don’t let that put you off).Behind the scenes, several issues had aligned in Cave’s life; a traumatic break-up, a second stint in rehab for a still persistent heroin addiction, and, most famously, a passionate but swiftly extinguished love-affair. With only the sparest accompaniment--often just a piano or organ, light percussion and violin (courtesy of Dirty Three's Warren Ellis)- -Cave employs traditional folk song structure and simplicity to weave tales saddened less through tragedy than through emptiness. Amid the ashes of a world unable to exorcise its demons, Nick actually finds love; a strange, twisted, doomed love, perhaps--but love nevertheless.

His lyrics were now thoroughly soaked in misanthropic themes and often documented characters in moments of bleak depravity or despair.

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