Riffing perhaps on the gorgeous cover to the classic Broken English LP from 1979, Marianne gets her smoke on here in the enigmatic, nay iconic, cover shot to "Give My Love To London".
Yap, legendary artist/muse/style-icon Marianne Faithfull presents her stellar new opus, Give My Love to London, this month.
Produced by Rob Ellis and Dimitri Tikovoi, the album truly features a hefty guest list!
Marianne's backing band here consists of Ellis and Tikovoi along with Portishead's Adrian Utley and Ed Harcourt.
Meanwhile, Warren Ellis and Jim Sclavunos of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds / Grinderman are featured as special guests.
While Faithfull wrote most of the lyrics, the music was written by a gang of unknowns .... folks like Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Nick Cave, Anna Calvi, Steve Earle, Pat Leonard, and Tom McRae.
Nick Cave wrote "Late Victorian Holocaust" specifically for Faithfull. The pair also co-wrote the track "Deep Water".
Things are busy in Faithfull-land, with Rizzoli set to publish Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record, a collection of photos of Marianne are from throughout her career, commented on by Faithfull herself.
Tracklisting
01 – Give My Love To London
02 – Sparrows Will Sing
03 – True Lies
04 – Love More Or Less
05 – Late Victorian Holocaust
06 – The Price Of Love
07 – Falling Back
08 – Deep Water
09 – Mother Wolf
10 – Going Home
11 – I Get Along Without You Very Well
"At every turn, there are subtleties, whispers, shadowy impulses, counterbalancing unbridled orchestral passages, and the tumult of that voice."
--Mojo
The beautifully presented "Anna Calvi" LP - the acclaimed debut of Brit guitarist and vocalist Anna Calvi.
The gorgeous artwork was by Emma Nathan.
Anna's been long championed by some well known faces. Yap, Brian Eno - who appears on two tracks here! - acclaimed Calvi as the most visionary female artist since Patti Smith, while Nick Cave has taken Anna and her band on tour in Europe with Grinderman.
Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey's right hand studio man) produced the album with help from Calvi.
Calvi's playing is inspired by Django Rheinhart as much as Jimi Hendrix and her singing style is Nina Simone with a bit Maria Callas - her sound is a passionate and incredibly original mix.
Calvi, this month, presents an 5 track EP of eclectic covers entitled Strange Weather.
"Strange Weather" features large contribution from Eno's buddy, David Byrne .... a stunning collaboration with on the title track, a cover of Keren Ann's "Strange Weather", as well as on the Connan Mockasin song I’m The Man That Will Find You."
Tracklisting
1. Rider To the Sea
2. No More Words
3. Desire
4. Suzanne & I
5. First We Kiss
6. The Devil
7. Blackout
8. I'll Be Your Man
9. Morning Light
10. Love Won't Be Leaving
From Nicky's new opus - the one with the naked chick on the cover (the official name of which, I believe, is "Push that naked chick away") - here's the mesmerising, high-concept, budget-breaking vid for the rather good "Jubilee Street", a dark poetic ballad that, after the silly Grinderman bullshit, harks back to older, better Bad Seeds days.
A ditty that proves there's simply not enough use of the line "foetus on a leash" in songs these days!
Yap, a typically great cover to the long awaited sophomore outing from Nick Cave and a few Bad Seeds as Grinderman, inspirationally called Grinderman 2 !
Hot on the heels of the fins single Heathen Child the first thing that hits you about Grinderman 2 is that you ve never heard anything f*cking like it!
Yeah, the 2007 debut did its job. It defined the band. It marked a clear contrast with the current work of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Rather it harked right back tot he band's post punk early days in berlin hovels!
Bad Seeds Nick, Warren, Martyn & Jim forged a distinctly different way of working together. They cast off musical baggage, shrugged off accepted wisdom, and tested pre conceptions about who they were as musicians.
In the process, they took to the Bad Seeds hallowed legacy with a baseball bat!
Their new album, Grinderman 2 combines the structured invention of their live performance and the unrestrained free for all of their studio improvisation. But these guys also know something about the art of writing songs. Grinderman 2 bears the hallmark of its rapturously received predecessor, yet is more open ended in its structure, more far reaching in its scope, and gloriously lost in its own transports of noise and rhythm.
The Deluxe CD Version comes in a heavy card sleeve with an expanded 56 page booklet and poster. The regular CD comes in a standard jewel case with a 28 page booklet.
Tracklisting
1. Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man 2. Worm Tamer 3. Heathen Child 4. When My Baby Comes 5. What I Know 6. Evil! 7. Kitchenette 8. Palaces of Montezuma 9. Bellringer Blues
Grinderman, the 'side project' of some very Bad Seeds - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos - are set to release the new single "Heathen Child" on 30th August.
What's the deal with the chick on the cover on this one! Veritably the spawn of Beelzebub! Reminds me of my mother in law!!
Yap, the long awaited sophomore outing from Nick Cave and pals as Grinderman (inspirationally called Grinderman 2 !) is a raw slice of post-punk angst harking back to the earliest days of Nick and the Seeds! Further back even! Yap, some real echoes of The Birthday in here too motherf*ckers!!
Lyrically too on this ditty - a harking back to John Lennon with it's "Don't care about .... God ... Buddha (yada yada yada)" lyrical hook!
Nick, of course, meanwhile claims to be a big fan of, and believer in, the Old Testament of Jehovah!! I even sat through a 'spoken word' show thingy of his back in the day on that very theme!
Grinderman had been put on hold for over three years due to several members involvement on Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' fourteenth studio album, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, in 2008. After Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds summer tour in 2008, the band began recording the album in various studios throughout London.
Speaking to XFM, Cave noted that the album "will feature a totally different sound" and plan to "do it a more serious way this time." However, Cave also stated that he did not plan for the album to receive commercial success.
Recording was completed in August 2009 - a year after the original sessions - and production was completed in early 2010, and the album was produced by Nick Launay - a friend of the band, who had also produced Grinderman's self-titled debut - with additional production by the members of the band.
In an interview with The Quietus in September 2009, Warren Ellis confirmed that Grinderman 2 was completed. Ellis also described the album as "like stoner rock meets Sly Stone via Amon Düül", "very diverse", and "psychedelic."
Grinderman 2 will drop worldwide on September 13, 2010 (via Mute Records) and in the United States a day later (via ANTI-). A European tour in promotion of the album was also announced.
"Heathen Child", will be released on August 30th. The single also includes a guest turn from some bloke called Robert Fripp on electric guitar !
What the fuck's going on with the video though? Man, this thing seems to be right out of the Gaga/ Jay Zzzzz/ Beyonce / Aguilera / Black Eyed Shite masonic poo-poo machine!
Shot in London, the vid for this thing could've come straight from one trick-pony David Lynch! Yap, touching on the the theme of 90% of Lynch's drivel, this features a young chick lying in a bath of some milk like substance (erm ... subtle!!) it depicts 'MK Ultra' style mind control (inlicted on young girls to horrifically create manufactured disassociative 'alter egos' in victims ... i.e. pure satanic ritual abuse!)
Yap, this is a newer younger Laura Palmer .... some twenty years later!
The vid's a thing veering between dumb camp Village People moments (giant gay nude-assed roman centurion cosplay anyone? ... ewwwww!) and a shitload of unsubtle occult/masonist symbolism! ... Well it was directed by 'newly Hollywood' Director Hillcoat ... and everyone knows what certain insidious sect 'Hollywood' Directors need to be a devout followers of before they're allowed be 'Hollywood' Directors!
Man, this thing even touches upon some of the large scale monstrous evils inflicted by this insidious sect (symbolised by the 'all powerful' camp centurions!) Could that really be a so-called "tsunami" caused by an underwater nuclear detonation?
This thing's a surprising one alright, especially considering the mass audience for GMan just ain't there. Also the target demographic (this isn't going to hit too many young female kiddies) is off. This Gaga-esque vid won't reach a fraction of the 'Gaga' young female kiddy audience! ... What it does so is show the extent to which this type of insidious social engineering via bullshit Vids/ Flicks / TV shows etc is spreading.
Cave - somewhat disingeniously - spoke about elements of the music video noting that "the video follows the fortunes of a worringly young white girl as she sits in a bath, confronted by the panoply of fiends that occupy her subconcious." ... Erm, who put these 'alters' there and how?
The thing premiered on NME's Video Box on August 9, 2010. Reports of some real similarities between this thing and Hot Chip's "I Feel Better" video were soon floating about! ... What? Was that some luciferian piece of social engineering too?
Anyway, this video was made by and is meant for adults! If you ain't one of those, don't f*cking watch ... and while you're at it, please f*ck off outta here and go play with guns or something! Yap, get a pic of Hillcoat's or Cave's mug and shoot the fuck out of it!
I think I hear a baby cry, thought Electric Alice as she passed by. Makes me feel like I'm a little child again, thought Electric Alice in the silver rain.
The long awaited 'Grinderman II' will be dropping this Autumn. Meanwhile, from Grinderman's debut a couple of years back - a real return to form from Nick Cave (and a few pals) after a few disappointing outings with The Bad Seeds in the period after Cave's meisterwerk The Boatman's Call - it's the wonderful "Electric Alice".
A lovely piece of minimalist black angst-ridden abstraction.
A tale from the the heart of the wasteland.
A trip through the looking glass, to the dark side of the mirror!
..... Lil' Al's quite the enigmatic chick!!
An excellent video here from carlycuts that ties in perectly with the song's anguished athmosphere ... Great work buddy!
Grinderman, the 'side project' of some very Bad Seed - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos - are set to release the new single "Heathen Child" on 30th August.
Love the cover on this one! Veritably the spawn of Satan! Reminds me of my ex wife!!
The taster for their new studio album - the imaginativelly titled "Grinderman 2"! - will be released on the Mute label on 13th September. More info to be had on grinderman.com
It's just over three years since the band's fine debut, "Grinderman", which was released in 2007, again on Mute. An album lauded by critics for its raw power, which caled to mind Cave's celebrated and seminal post-punk project The Birthday Party.
The band was put on ice due while Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' 14th album, "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" was worked on, released and promoted.
Well, here's hoping G2 reaches the heights of, erm, G1!!.
A real return to form from Nick Cave and a few pals after a few disappointing outings with The Bad Seeds in the period after Cave's meisterwerk The Boatman's Call.
The step away from the Seeds seems to have freed up Nicky and allowed all involved to go back to the future! This really is a rgreat eturn to the angst, power and rawness of the earliest Bad Seeds albums, and indeed harks back to his previous outfit, post-punk heroes the Birthday Party!
This Grinderman project would in turn freshen the Bad Seeds and the great 2008 LP Dig Lazarus Dig would carry on in the same vein as the template carved out here.
This is a wonderful and humorous rock-fuelled trip to the back of the mirror!
Lock up the kids, motherfuckers!
Yap beginning sometime in the mid-to-late 1990s, Nick Cave's output became increasingly nuanced, introspective, and even tender. While he was still capable of a snarling rocker now and again, he'd certainly mellowed by the turn of the new millennium.
Then came 2007 and the arrival of the mighty Grinderman, a raucous, noisy, angry, horny outfit fronted by Nick Caveand featuring a few erstwhile members of The Bad Seeds Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos.
The project marks the first time Cave has been featured on guitar, and the first time since as far back as the Birthday Party. that he's approached his music with such libidinal urgency and swaggering gothic machismo.
The music screeches, lurches, and clangs with a loose abandon that reimagines Cave's earlier incarnations in a more self-effacing guise.
While Cave's lyrics are as considered and darkly literary as ever, there's great humour here ("No Pussy Blues," "Depth Charge"), and the general improvisatory, spontaneous nature of the project is obviously being enjoyed by all.
GRINDERMAN is delicious proof that Nick the Stripper isn't gone after all.
Parents, lock up the kiddies, it's showtime motherfuckers!
Tracklisting
1. Get It On 2. No Pussy Blues 3. Electric Alice 4. Grinderman 5. Depth Charge Ethel 6. Go Tell The Women 7. (I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free 8. Honey Bee (Lets Fly To Mars) 9. Man In The Moon 10. When My Love Comes Down 11. Love Bomb
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