Grinderman

Debut album from blues-rock supergroup featuring Nick Cave and Warren Ellis of The Bad Seeds. Nasty, dirty, bold, abrasive and brilliant, with more than a few echoes of Cave's early band The Birthday Party, Grinderman's music is not for the faint of heart - the blues deconstructed and played with wild abandon by men who describe themselves as "old enough to know better". Includes the single 'No Pussy Blues'.

Spin (p.86)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Cave channels the primal misanthropy he explored 30 years ago with the Birthday Party in breakneck scuzz-fuzz freak-outs."

Entertainment Weekly (p.72)
- "[T]he band whips up an unusually fierce racket...with Cave in finest tortured-yowl form..."

Q (p.112)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "Best of all is 'Set Me Free,' a classic, stomping Bad Seeds-style blues....Grinderman has the power of Cave's best work, without ever eclipsing it."

Alternative Press (p.150)
- 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "11 tracks that scorch the earth lesser bands traipse on....[Cave's lyrics are] filled with an arrogance and swagger usually emanating from drifters and organized crime bosses."

No Depression (p.98)
- "Nick Cave hasn't sounded this unhinged in ages....The sound they make is darker, more disruptive and a good deal funnier than any recent Bad Seeds output."