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The Bad Seeds are scattered. Past and present members – along with their leader, Nick Cave – are in different corners of the world: Brighton, Greece, …
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have announced plans to release a follow-up to 2005’s B-Sides & Rarities, simply called B-Sides & Rarities Part II, arriving on October 22 on double vinyl, double CD, deluxe double CD and all digital platforms. Super-fans will also be able to buy B-Sides & Rarities Part I and …
Featuring 27 tracks recorded between 2006 and 2020.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are releasing a new compilation, titled B-Sides & Rarities Part II, this October.
Read more: How Nick Cave grew in the darkness
Compiled by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, B-Sides & Rarities Part II features 27 rare and previously unreleased tracks from between 2006 and 2020, including the first recordings of ‘Skeleton Tree’, ‘Girl In Amber’, and ‘Bright Horses’.
Alongside the new compilation, Cave is also releasing both Part I and Part II in an 83-track, 7xLP box set.
B-Sides & Rarities Part II follows Cave and Ellis’ Carnage album, released in June this year.
Pre-order B-Sides & Rarities Part II here in advance of its 22nd October release, check out the artwork and tracklist below.
Tracklist:
1. Hey Little Firing Squad
2. Fleeting Love
3. Accidents Will Happen
4. Free To Walk (With Debbie Harry)
5. Avalanche*
6. Vortex*
7. Needle Boy
8. Lightning Bolts
9. Animal X
10. Give Us a Kiss
11. Push The Sky Away (Live with The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)*
12. First Skeleton Tree*
13. King Sized Nick Cave Blues*
14. Opium Eyes*
15. Big Dream (With Sky)*
16. Instrumental #33*
17. Hell Villanelle*
18. Euthanasia*
19. Life Per Se*
20. Steve McQueen*
21. First Bright Horses*
22. First Girl in Amber*
23. Glacier*
24. Heart that Kills You*
25. First Waiting for You*
26. Sudden Song*
27. Earthlings*
*Previously unreleased
Photo by Patrick Beaudry for Osheaga Festival.
Produced in lockdown with Warren Ellis.
Nick Cave has unveiled a new album, called Carnage.
Read more: From Bad Seed to Skeleton Tree: How Nick Cave grew in the darkness
Cave took to his Red Hand Files newsletter to make the announcement; beyond its title no further details are known at the time of writing.
Alongside the news, Cave also shared how much he missed live gigs:
“There is a terrible yearning and a feeling of a life being half-lived. I miss the thrill of stepping onto the stage, the rush of the performance … the loss of self, the physicalness of it all, the feeding frenzy of communal love.”
Carnage follows the release of Cave’s solo piano show Idiot Prayer as a live album late last year, via Bad Seeds Ltd.
Photo by: NRK P3
The vinyls. Remember those? Seems like I haven’t received a lot of vinyl to review in the last couple of months. I had a reader comment not too long ago that I should limit the Vinyl Anachronist music reviews to just LPs if I’m going to give this column that name. Deep down, I keep the name because it’s a continuation of my blog, which I just recently discontinued, and an extension of this persona I created back in 1998. But I agree with you. YES, I should limit this column to LPs. But I can’t because most artists who are just starting out, or in a very insular genre such as contemporary jazz, don’t have the money right now to send LPs all over the place hoping for reviews–hence the preponderance of CDs and digital downloads. I wish I received that many LPs for review, that daily front porch squeal of delight, especially since I’m running out of room for all these CDs. That doesn’t excuse my neglect when it comes to this LP, Squarewave’s Hazy. I’d forgotten all about it. I didn’t see it until a few days ago, when finally some more review LPs arrived. I said uh-oh, […]
An extended version of the film will also come to cinemas.
Nick Cave is releasing his solo piano show Idiot Prayer as a live album, via Bad Seeds Ltd this November.
Read more: From Bad Seed to Skeleton Tree: How Nick Cave grew in the darkness
Amidst the Coronavirus pandemic in June, Cave live-streamed a solo piano show at London’s Alexandra Palace, performing stripped back versions of songs including ‘(Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For?’, ‘Into My Arms’, and ‘Nobody’s Baby Now’.
A recording of the show will now be released as a live album. “It is a prayer into the void — alone at Alexandra Palace — a souvenir from a strange and precarious moment in history,” says Cave.
Ahead of the live album, an extended version of the film featuring previously unseen footage will be shown in select cinemas from the 5th of November.
Cave recently launched a new online store called Cave Things — stocking everything from T-shirts to Cave-designed prints.
Head here to pre-order a copy in advance of Idiot Prayer — Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace’s 20th November release, check out the artwork and tracklist below.
Tracklist:
1. Spinning Song
2. Idiot Prayer
3. Sad Waters
4. Brompton Oratory
5. Palaces of Montezuma
6. Girl in Amber
7. Man in The Moon
8. Nobody’s Baby Now
9. (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For?
10. Waiting For You
11. The Mercy Seat
12. Euthanasia
13. Jubilee Street
14. Far From Me
15. He Wants You
16. Higgs Boson Blues
17. Stranger Than Kindness
18. Into My Arms
19. The Ship Song
20. Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
21. Black Hair
22. Galleon Ship