Stone continues to draw inspiration from '70s funk and soul with current flexes, sitting amid D'Angelo in its sultrier moments, Stevie Wonder at its most melodic and the production of Mark Ronson at its most modern. For Building Balance, he worked with Grammy-winning producer Nasri as well as Jamie Lidell. emerges with one of his most powerful albums yet, an endlessly giving and complex meditation on mortality and our collective grief." - Pitchfork, Best New MusicĪllen Stone - Building Balance CD/LP (ATO)Īllen Stone's Building Balance is his first new album in four years, spanning a time period spent figuring out how the old parts and the new parts of his universe were going to co-exist.
Scored by synthesizers, pianos, and electronics, the process is alternately harrowing and comforting for the first hour of the album, Cave's waking nightmare on full display. He loses his faith, then fights desperately for any belief that can replace it. He latches onto friendship and love in any shape they take. He empathizes with the true believers who wept beneath Jesus' feet at the crucifixion. His mood drifts between domesticity and depravity. "On the the first album Nick Cave has written and recorded entirely since the death of his teenage son, Arthur, in 2015-he sorts through his grief and all the requisite stages, occasionally as though in real time. Ghosteen is a migrating spirit," notes Cave. The songs on the second album are their parents. "The songs on the first album are the children. Ghosteen, the new two-part album from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, serves as the band's 17th studio effort overall following 2016's Skeleton Tree. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen 2xCD/2xLP+MP3 (Ghosteen/AWAL)
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