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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Wild God review – a different kind of transcendence
The Bad Seeds are back, if slightly muted, as Cave channels his grief following the death of two of his sons to often tremendous effect
Few rock stars turned public intellectuals have processed grief more eloquently than former hellraiser Nick Cave, whose output since the death of his teenage son Arthur in 2015 (and 31-year-old Jethro in 2022) has yielded three studio albums, two documentaries, film soundtracks, a memoir and an agony uncle column like no other. Powered by a spacey analogue keyboard figure, the riveting Final Rescue Attempt throws another classic Cave piano workout on to this artist’s impressive stack. But if much of Wild God is tremendous, mobilising bodies of water, religious figures, animals and allegorical storytelling in the service of unanchored feeling, the Bad Seeds do remain a tad muted in the mix.
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