Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away [BAD SEED LTD]

Why you'll love it

Push the Sky Away was the Bad Seeds' first No. 1 album in Australia, a hushed, hypnotic masterpiece Billboard called their commercial breakthrough.

This edition

• Original 2013 artwork
• On the band's own Bad Seed Ltd label

About the album

After years of thunder and bloodshed, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds made their quietest, strangest and most spellbinding record. Push the Sky Away was recorded in a 19th-century mansion in southern France with producer Nick Launay, and you can almost hear the walls breathing.

Warren Ellis' loops and violin glide under Cave's half-spoken poetry. "We No Who U R" opens with a soft, eerie hush, "Jubilee Street" builds from a slow walk into a glorious, swirling climax, "Higgs Boson Blues" is an eight-minute fever dream, and "Wide Lovely Eyes" and the title track are achingly beautiful.

It topped the charts in six countries beyond Australia. Out on the band's own Bad Seed label, it's a late-career triumph and the start of a remarkable new chapter.

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Tracklist

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On Bad Seed Ltd (cat# BS001VEXC), a reissue of the 2013 album.