"Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren's loops are its tiny, trembling heart-beat."
Nick Cave

At the heart of Push the Sky Away is a naturalism and warmth that makes it the most subtly beautiful of all the Bad Seeds albums. The contemporary settings of myths, and the cultural references that have time-stamped Nick’s songs of the twenty-first century mist lightly through details drawn from the life he observed around his seaside home, through the tall windows on the album’s mysterious and ambiguous cover.

The songs on this album took form in a modest notebook with shellac covers over the course of almost a year. The notebook is a treasured analogue artefact but the internet is equally important to Nick: Googling curiosities, being entranced by exotic Wikipedia entries “whether they’re true or not”. These songs convey how on the internet profoundly significant events, momentary fads and mystically-tinged absurdities sit side-by-side and question how we might recognise and assign weight to what’s genuinely important.

Push the Sky Away was produced by Nick Launay and recorded at La Fabrique, a recording studio based in a 19th Century mansion in the South of France, where the walls of the main studio are lined with an immense collection of classical vinyl.

"I enter the studio with a handful of ideas, unformed and pupal; it's the Bad Seeds that transform them into things of wonder. Ask anyone who has seen them at work. They are unlike any other band on earth for pure, instinctive inventiveness." Nick Cave

On this album it’s not always apparent what instruments the band is playing: they may be traditional musical instruments but other sounds are clearly generated by objects unrelated to musical instruments. What’s being created is a co.......
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds nagrali piętnasty album studyjny. Płyta jest zatytułowana "Push The Sky Away" i znajduje się na niej 9 nowych utworów. Krążek znalazł się na półkach sklepowych w lutym 2013. Nagrań dokonano w studiu La Fabrique, które znajduje się w XIX - wiecznym dworze na południu Francji. "Wszedłem do studia z kilkoma, raczej średnimi wydaje mi się pomysłami, ale to The Bad Seeds zamienili je w prawdziwe perełki. Każdy kto widział ich podczas pracy potwierdzi, że takiej drugiej ekipy nie ma. Mają ogromną inwencję i niesamowity instynkt" - opowiada sam Cave.

Za produkcję "Push The Sky Away" odpowiada Nick Launay, a fundamentem płyty jest ciepło i naturalizm powodujące, że jest to najbardziej subtelny i piękny ze wszystkich albumów Nicka i spółki. "Sam nie wiem, to w teorii nowa płyta, ale nowa w oldskulowym pojęciu tego słowa" - podsumowuje Cave.



"Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren's loops are its tiny, trembling heart-beat."
Nick Cave

At the heart of Push the Sky Away is a naturalism and warmth that makes it the most subtly beautiful of all the Bad Seeds albums. The contemporary settings of myths, and the cultural references that have time-stamped Nick’s songs of the twenty-first century mist lightly through details drawn from the life he observed around his seaside home, through the tall windows on the album’s mysterious and ambiguous cover.

The songs on this album took form in a modest notebook with shellac covers over the course of almost a year. The notebook is a treasured analogue artefact but the internet is equally important to Nick: Googling curiosities, being entranced by exotic Wikipedia entries “whether they’re true or not”. These songs convey how on the internet profoundly significant events, momentary fads and mystical.......
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