How Nick Cave Weathered Unimaginable Tragedy and Fell in Love With the World, Returning With a ‘Joyful’ Album, ‘Wild God’
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Two years ago, on an idyllic summer night in Oslo, Norway, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds were holding a revival.
Ostensibly, it was the long-running group’s headlining set at the Oya Festival, but any Cave experience these days is much more than that.
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.
The concert was a rapturous release — from COVID lockdown, yes, but it was also a vivid living symbol of Cave’s return from beneath the dark clouds surrounding the deaths of two of his children as well as his ex-girlfriend and collaborator, Anita Lane.
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