Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  Alternative
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: April 8, 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Anti (USA)
• UPC: 045778694327
• WAPI (Tower ID): 111933199
• Average Customer Review:    (1 customer review)
• Tower.com Sales Rank: #1607 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #649 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
• #99 in Alternative (See Top 100 Alternative Bestsellers)

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Rolling Stone (p.56) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The Bad Seeds sound wilder than ever -- guitarist Warren Ellis damn near steals the show on the hysterically heavy-breathing 'Lie Down Here'..."
Spin (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Thick with decadence, his oeuvre oozes caustic realism....A rock'n'roll fable about redemption and the pleasures of debauchery."
Entertainment Weekly - "Cave spits out his woebegone lyrics as if he were a Holy Ghost-filled preaching machine leading the world's funkiest revival meeting."
Uncut (p.84) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir musical inventiveness is highly disciplined. The band has never sounded better, and Cave seems to have relaxed into the hysteria of his vocal style..."
The Wire (p.53) - "[T]he album focuses on lithe grooves passed from member to member....The title track and its close musical relative 'More News From Nowhere' coasts along on Velveteen riffs..."
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.49) - "The spirited 'Albert Goes West' is typical of his sparse and elusive charm, while the title-track is as pointedly tuneful as it gets."
Q (Magazine) (p.105) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] triumphant album....Like Bob Dylan on TIME OUT OF MIND, Cave takes time to roam the lyrical landscape he has spent his whole career mapping out..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Visceral, masterful, exciting and profound, this one -- again! feels like it may be his best."
Harp (magazine) - "[T]hese sneering, bleary-eyed tracks have a bold potency to go with their fuzz-tone organ's pop-psychedelic fizzle and frying guitars."
Pitchfork (Website) - "With the emphasis on acoustic guitars and occasional blasts of electric static...[and] plenty of odd noises and lewd organs that suggest some sort of twisted take on 1960s psych and garage rock."

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Martyn Casey, Conway Savage, James Johnston, Jim Sclavunos, Mick Harvey, Nick Cave, Thomas Wydler, Warren Ellis.

Nick Cave's 2008 album DIG, LAZARUS, DIG is a study in growing old gracefully, while still punching and kicking into that good night. Some might claim that Cave has irrevocably mellowed since his earlier days, yet one need only look to the arch, caustic musical leg-hump that was 2007's Grinderman album for evidence to the contrary. In fact, Cave's intensity hasn't lapsed in the least, it's merely evolved. DIG, LAZARUS, DIG, however, speaks to the artistry behind this evolution in attitude.

From the opening title track, the listener gets a complete picture of everything Nick Cave has been working toward as an artist. The song's biblical overtures are posited against allusions to modern hedonism and the price of vanity in a rapidly deteriorating culture. Cave is the embodiment of the sacred-profane binary, and "Lazarus" is his swaggering, four-minute skronk-funk opus. And while Cave is certainly running the show here, the Bad Seeds are also given their due. Seasoned pros that they are, the band lays down confident, moody rock that swings ("We Call Upon the Author") and haunts ("Night of the Lotus Eaters") equally, depending on which muse is calling to their leader at any given moment. Cave is now a rock institution and one of the style's most innovative, mercurial, and artistically satisfying artists. DIG, LAZARUS, DIG is yet another excellent entry in his stunning body of work.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

The release of Cave’s new studio album put’s him at a counted collection of one more than a baker’s dozen, and he’s fueled and ready to entertain with what seems like a more energetic attitude than ever.

Throughout there careers, artists who create with a purpose, like Nick Cave, seem to be perpetually searching for the conclusive “answer” that will allow them to make there music confident and sure of itself. Well Nicky and his band of Bad Seeds lack little confidence as they scale through there most recent wax impression, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!. Cave, now at a half a century young, swaggers and howls with the confidence of a sure man. His calm attack and poignant lyrical delivery makes for the strongest album we’ve seen from the clan; versus the past when the efforts seemed to lack the maturity and drive that are readily prevalent on this release.

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! is fun and catchy while still preserving the certified sound they’ve taken so long to establish as there own. The catchy aspect to the album can be found on the cotton tailed ditty “We Call upon the Author”, whereas in the closing “More News from Nowhere” we find him poking fun at himself, again expressing his rise above attitude and finding humor in the Nick Cave we know.

For Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds fans, this record will fill a gap in their collection. As for cave dabblers this may be the intro album to his career that you were waiting for. I wonder if we play Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! backwards we would be able to hear Cave saying, I am fifty…hear me ROAR!!!

Favorite Songs: “We call Upon the Author”, “More News from Nowhere”, “Lie down Here”

Danny "LIT" – Tower Pulse 04/09/2008

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