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Nick Cave reflects on the comfort he's sought from religion and alludes to being visited by his late son's spirit in lyrics from his new album Wild God
Along with his band The Wild Seeds, the hitmaker, 66, has channelled the grief he suffered in the wake of losing two of his sons, into the new collection of songs.
Nick previously spoke about the album in an interview with The Sunday Times, and told the publication that the prospect of an afterlife was at the forefront of his mind while writing the record, especially in the wake of his son's deaths. The troubled man, who had spent years in and out of custody as his life spiralled out of control in a haze of illicit drugs, had been facing more criminal charges when he was found dead in a $100-a-night motel in Melbourne. Nick alludes to being visited by the spirit of his late son on the album, singing in the track Joy: 'A ghost in giant sneakers, laughing, stars around his head … a flaming boy'
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