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How Nick Cave Weathered Unimaginable Tragedy and Fell in Love With the World, Returning With a ‘Joyful’ Album, ‘Wild God’
Nick Cave digs deep about tragedy, songwriting, his new album 'Wild God,' and how grief transformed his dark image into a message of hope.
It wasn’t just because of the four gospel-style backing singers, the hymn-like quality of the slower songs, or Cave’s omnipresent sleek suit and stentorian speak-singing style, which has been compared to that of a preacher for so long that it’s become a clichéd descriptor — even as it has grown closer in tone to the Faulknerian fire and brimstone that influenced so much of his early work. And after a series of understandably muted and at-times gloomy albums, his latest, “Wild God” — out today (Aug. 30) — continues that openness, unfurling a huge, full-band sound and rousing, almost anthemic choruses about redemption and release, beauty and sadness. It gets to the end of the week and I say, ‘Oh fuck, I have to write a Red Hand File.’ But then I read the questions, and eventually one sort of presents itself — ‘I can answer that’ — so I sit down and do it, and I send it to my assistant, who has turned out to be a great editor, and she fixes up bits of it and it goes back and forth.
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