Nick Cave / & The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (2LP )

Release date:17-10-2014(originally released in 2004)

2014 EU repressed on 180g vinyl 2LP+download=With Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds sprawling 17-track behemoth Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (2004) we have something that few could have expected - two albums that can both be regarded as self-contained masterpieces; two storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful records that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writer's block, flowers, animals and more flowers. Home to the idiosyncratic singles "Nature Boy," "Breathless," "There She Goes, My Beautiful World" and "Get Ready For Love," Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus was produced by Nick Launay and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and recorded at Studio Ferber in Paris, France

Tracks:
LP1
Abattoir Blues
A1 Get Ready For Love
A2 Cannibal's Hymn
A3 Hiding All Away
A4 Messiah Ward

B1 There She Goes, My Beautiful World
B2 Nature Boy
B3 Abattoir Blues
B4 Let The Bells Ring
B5 Fable Of The Brown Ape

LP2
The Lyre Of Orpheus
C1 The Lyre Of Orpheus
C2 Breathless
C3 Babe, You Turn Me On
C4 Easy Money

D1 Supernaturally
D2 Spell
D3 Carry Me
D4 O Children

After The Boatman’s Call, No More Shall We Partand & Nocturama, it seemed the Bad Seeds had settled on a plateau - a place full of mournful, mid-paced balladeering. Worse, Nocturama made it seem an increasingly arid zone. This - two separate, contrasting albums; each with a different drummer - was a brilliantly audacious way to dispel such ideas. Here, suddenly, was, calypso, careening rock’n’roll - all fired along by an outrageous lyrical tumult that took in Karl Marx, ohnny Thunders, sundry birdlife and a suave re-telling of the Orphic myth