Nocturama

Twelfth album from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and the follow up to their 2001 release 'No More Shall We Part'. Recorded in a week 'Nocturama' displays Nick Cave's maverick songwriting, fusing black humour and emotional despair against haunting piano compositions and cathartic string arrangements.

Rolling Stone (2/20/03, p.61)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Nick Cave offers more of the gloomy torch songs and demon-exorcising mojo that have made him Australia's ranking goth poet..."

Mojo (2/03, p.84)
- "...A Cave world where The Bad Seeds can indeed stretch, howl, riff, sniff, grind and bark with a freedom unheard on record since 1993's LIVE SEEDS and where Cave himself can allow a little of that scary humanness back in..."

Uncut (3/03, p.96)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...NOCTURAMA sees Cave purposefully attempt to lend new flavour to an old recipe..."

CMJ (1/27/03, p.6)
- "...Each song on NOCTURAMA is delicately crafted around Cave's despondent vocals, which mournfully convey his daunting, yet poetic, story-telling lyrics amidst a wash of delicate piano and string arrangements..."