Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The First Born Is DeadVinyl transfer approval overseen by Mick Harvey Summer 2014, cut at Abbey Road studios. Vinyl is heavyweight 180 gram. After emerging from the unbridled chaos of the Birthday Party, Cave pursued the ominous, bluesy direction hinted at by his erstwhile band's later work. 1985's 'First Born is Dead' finds Cave perfecting the punk blues world he began exploring on 'From Her to Eternity'. Combining manic, roots influenced raving with decadent Brechtian

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The band brought new focus to their wide-ranging songcraft

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managing to exist in a perfectly judged hinterland of fragility

for Houdini to speak to us if he so desires

approved personally by Nick Cave

and LA are interspersed with musical cries for help

‰ÛÏWe wanted to make something that had the sense of being timeless

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Under the ‰Û÷Black Moon Spell‰۪ you may experience euphoria

who telegraph call-and-response vocals over simple blues chord changes

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