Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds The Boatman’s Call UK LP RARE
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Apr 20, 2009 Sold Date
Apr 10, 2009 Start Date
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds The Boatman’s Call UK 1997 LP Mute Records Catalogue Number Stumm 142, Rare and sought after vinyl issue of this classic LP. Murder Ballads brought Nick Cave's morbidity to near-parodic levels, which makes the disarmingly frank and introspective songs of The Boatman's Call all the more startling. A song cycle equally inspired by Cave's failed romantic affairs and religious doubts, The Boatman's Call captures him at his most honest and despairing while he retains a fascination for gothic, Biblical imagery, it has little of the grand theatricality and self-conscious poetics that made his albums emotionally distant in the past. This time, there's no posturing, either from Cave or the Bad Seeds. The music is direct, yet it has many textures, from blues to jazz, which offer a revealing and sympathetic bed for Cave's best, most affecting songs. The Boatman's Call is one of his finest albums and arguably the masterpiece he has been promising throughout his career. Sleeve EX- Record EX- (one light scuff), P&P UK £2.99 Overseas at cost


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