Nick Cave has confirmed he’s began work on a brand new Unhealthy Seeds album, sharing some early lyric concepts within the course of.
Final yr, Cave mentioned he was planning on writing a brand new album as soon as his touring commitments had wrapped up.
“It’s a few man sitting down in his house and confronting an entire lack of concepts about issues,” he mentioned onstage at London’s Southbank Centre. “I don’t accumulate concepts, I don’t write issues down or get a cool title or no matter. I don’t try this stuff. I simply make a date and sit down and begin to write a report.”
Now Cave has confirmed that the album-writing course of is underway. Responding to a query from Fred about his plans for 2023, Cave wrote on his weblog, The Purple Hand Recordsdata: “My plan for this yr is to make a brand new report with the Unhealthy Seeds. That is each excellent news and dangerous information. Excellent news as a result of who doesn’t desire a new Unhealthy Seeds report? Unhealthy information as a result of I’ve bought to write down the bloody factor.”
He went on to disclose the he began the method at 9am on New 12 months’s Day. “It’s now January 6. Almost per week has handed and I’ve written just a few issues however they aren’t excellent, or possibly they’re, it’s troublesome to inform,” he mentioned.
“It’s the identical with each report, I really feel that acquainted feeling of lack, like I’m an enormous, dumb clean factor in a go well with. I’m grumpy as fuck and Susie [Bick] has decamped for per week. Something that resembles a inventive impulse is burrowed means down in some mossy, froggy gap, asleep.”
Cave went on to say he has to “provoke [inspiration] from its slumber. It turns into a nasty, punishing, baggy-eyed enterprise.”
“I’m beginning to get an infuriating sing-song voice in my head that truly rhymes, like a insanity. Like disappointment,” he added, earlier than sharing the primary lyrics he wrote for the upcoming Nick Cave And The Unhealthy Seeds report.
“Ushering within the yr he knelt down/And crushed his brother’s head with a bone,” wrote Cave. “That felt like an okay method to begin a report nevertheless it additionally felt sort of terminal and didn’t actually go wherever.”
He then shared the up to date lyrics: “Ushering within the new yr he knelt down / And crushed his brother’s head with a bone / It’s my nice privilege to stroll you residence / Within the rain / Hop inside my coat.
“The frogs within the gutter are leaping for God / Amazed of affection, amazed of ache / Amazed to land again within the gutter once more.”
“And that felt prefer it summed issues up,” continued Cave. “Writing lyrics is the pits. It’s like leaping for frogs, Fred. It’s the shits. It’s the bogs. It truly hurts. It is available in spurts, however few and much between. There’s something obscene about the entire affair. Like crimes that rhyme. I hope this doesn’t final lengthy. I’m truly scared.”
Cave had beforehand mentioned that inspiration is “not one thing that finds you, or presents itself to you”.
Nick Cave’s final album with The Unhealthy Seeds, ‘Ghosteen’, got here out in 2019. “Many individuals have remarked that Ghosteen is a tragic album, however I don’t suppose it’s in any respect,” Cave mentioned on the time. “In actual fact I don’t suppose I’ve ever heard a extra uplifting, jubilant report earlier than. Why do you suppose individuals are reacting so in another way to it? I virtually really feel like I’ve misinterpreted it.”
