Push the Sky Away

Rock · 2013 · 9 tracks · 42m

Push the Sky Away

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Restraint. Ghostly loops, dry bass, and surrealist lyrics create a murky, late-night atmosphere that feels both ancient and digital.

It's like a beautiful, slow-motion fever dream where Nick Cave reads you Wikipedia entries over ghostly loops.

A shimmering, liquid minimalism that feels like a shared secret in the dead of night.

Push the Sky Away · vs · Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Surreal Abstract+2.7σ

The writing leans far further into surreal abstract than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 9 Tracks · 42m

01

We No Who U R

4:05

02

Wide Lovely Eyes

3:40

03

Water’s Edge

3:49

04

Jubilee Street

6:36

05

Mermaids

3:49

06

We Real Cool

4:19

07

Finishing Jubilee Street

4:29

08

Higgs Boson Blues

7:51

09

Push the Sky Away

4:07

Moments Worth Waiting For

The hypnotic, repetitive bass groove of Jubilee Street that slowly gathers a storm of frantic violins and choral swells.

The way the drums on Higgs Boson Blues feel like a tired heart beating while Cave name-checks Miley Cyrus and the Large Hadron Collider.

The sudden, crystalline clarity of the backing vocals on We No Who U R that sound like a warning from the woods.

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