GIRL
IN AMBER
NICK
CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
SONGWRITERS:
WARREN ELLIS, NICHOLAS CAVE
COUNTRY:
AUSTRALIA
ALBUM:
SKELETON TREE
LABEL:
BED SEED LTD.
GENRE:
AVANT-GARDE
YEAR:
2016
Skeleton Tree is the
sixteenth studio album by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It
was released on 9 September 2016 on Bad Seed Ltd. A follow-up to the band's
critically acclaimed álbum Push the Sky Away(2013), Skeleton Tree was recorded
over 18 months at Retreat Recording Studios in Brighton, La Frette Studios in La
Frette-sur-Seine and Air Studios in London. It was produced by Nick Cave, Warren
Ellis and Nick Launay. During
the sessions Cave's 15-year-old son Arthur died from an accidental cliff fall.
Most of the album had been written at the time of Cave's son's death, but
several lyrics were amended by Cave during subsequent recording sessions and
feature themes of death, loss and personal grief.
Skeleton Tree's minimal
production and "less polished" sound incorporates elements of electronic
and ambient music and, like Push the Sky Away, features extensive use of
synthesizers, drum machines and loops. Several songs on the album utilize avant-garde
techniques, including the use of dissonant musical elements and non-standard song
structures. Cave's
allegorical and often-improvised lyrics have also been noted to be less
narrative and character-based than on previous Bad Seeds albums.
One More Time with Feeling,
a documentary film about the aftermath of Cave's son's death and the recording
process of Skeleton Tree, accompanied the album's release. Directed by Andrew
Dominik, the film received a limited release and was conceived by Cave to explain
the context and themes of Skeleton Tree without conducting interviews with
the media. Both the
film and the album received widespread critical acclaim.
Nick Cave and the Bad
Seeds are an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in 1983 by vocalist Nick
Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist-vocalist Blixa Bargeld.
The band has featured international personnel throughout its career and
presently consists of Cave, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis,
bassist Martyn P. Casey(all from Australia), guitarist George Vjestica(United
Kingdom), keyboardist/percussionist Toby Dammit (United States) and drummers Thomas
Wydler (Switzerland) and Jim Sclavunos (United States). With their "brutal
blues and gothic nightmares" songs, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have been
considered "one of the most original and celebrated bands of the post-punk
and alternative rock eras in the '80s and onward". They have released
seventeen studio albums and completed numerous international tours.
The band was founded in
1983 following the demise of Cave and Harvey's former group the Birthday Party,
the members of which met at a boarding school in Victoria. By the release of
their fifth studio album Tender Prey in 1988, they shifted from post-punk
towards an experimental alternative rock sound, later incorporating various
influences throughout their career. 2008's Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! and the
side-project Grinderman were influenced by garage rock. Synthesizers and
minimal guitar work feature prominently on Push the Sky Away(2013), recorded
after Harvey's departure from the band in 2009.
Some go and some stay behind
Some never move at all
Girl in amber trapped forever, spinning down the hall
Let no part of her go unremembered, clothes across the floor
Girl in amber, long to slumber, shuts the bathroom door
The phone, the phone, the phone it rings, it rings, it rings no more
The song, the song, the song it spins since nineteen eighty-four
The phone, the phone, the phone, it rings, the phone, it rings no more
The song, the song it's been spinning now since nineteen
And if you want to bleed, just bleed
And if you want to bleed, just bleed
And if you want to bleed, don't breathe a word
Just step away and let the world spin
And now in turn, you turn
You kneel, lace up his shoes, your little blue-eyed boy
Take him by his hand, go move and spin him down the hall
I get lucky, I get lucky cause I tried again
I knew the world it would stop spinning now since you've been gone
I used to think that when you died you kind of wandered the world
In a slumber til your crumble were absorbed into the earth
Well, I don't think that any more the phone it rings no more
The song, the song it spins now since nineteen eighty-four
The song, the song, the song it spins, it's been a spinning now
And if you'll hold me I will tell you that you know that
And if you want to leave, don't breathe
And if you want to leave, don't breathe
And if you want to leave, don't breathe a word
And let the world turn
The song, the song it spins, the song, it spins, it spins no more
The phone, it rings, it rings and you won't stay
Don't touch me
Don't touch me
Don't touch me
Don't touch me.
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