Nick Cave launches mysterious countdown clock
nme.comNick Cave has launched a mysterious countdown clock, but it has not been revealed what will happen when the clock strikes zero.Fans who visit the musician’s website will find a 24-hour clock ticking down.
As it stands, the countdown will finish at 17:15 GMT tomorrow (March 6), or 12:15 ET/09:15 PT in the United States.Cave has also posted a link to the site on his social media channels, with fans starting to speculate that it might refer to a possible announcement about a new album.The first word of a new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album came back in October 2022 when he confirmed in a Q&A that he was about to start the writing process.
He later said that the eventual writing processed commenced at 9am on New Year’s Day 2023.In July last year, he wrote on his site that they were “finishing” work on recording the new album, and then in November, Cave said he was about to start mixing on the record in Buffalo.Speaking to NMElast summer, Cave described the new material as “just so instantly interesting” as well as “different all the time”.
He also said that he didn’t think that he and the band could make “an old-school Bad Seeds record anymore where it’s basically a rock band playing”.He added: “I don’t see that happening.
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