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“I hope the album has the effect on listeners that it’s had on me,” Cave says. “It bursts
out of the speaker, and I get swept up with it. It’s a complicated record, but it’s also
deeply and joyously infectious. There is never a masterplan when we make a record.
The records rather reflect back the emotional state of the writers and musicians who
played them. Listening to this, I don’t know, it seems we’re happy.”
Across ten tracks, the band dance between convention and experimentation, taking left-
turns and detours that heighten the rich imagery and emotion in Cave’s soul-stirring
narratives. It is the sound of a group emboldened by reconnection and taking flight.
There are moments that touch fondly upon the Bad Seeds’ past but they are fleeting,
and serve only to imbue the relentless and restless forward motion of the band.